Individual customers, and corporate customers, are wildly different.
The "buy it for life" business model works very well if you're trying to launch a mass market product to individuals.
In your first year of a product, those users who'll pay upfront 3 years of subscriptions for a "lifetime pass" are an awe-inspiringly useful customer segment to identify.
They're your way to run experiments to find "what am I doing well and how can I do more of it."
Plus, they're effectively loaning your business money against future revenues. During the first 2 years of your product, that's an amazing deal all round.
Just... never, ever, let corporations "buy it for life." Corporations will exploit by it for life dramatically.
They almost never stop working on you, and are far easier to maintain cross platform.
Using the same thing on Mac at work and Linux at home is a joy.
Increasingly, I actively try to use the command line approach to all my software. Not because it's better (often it... isn't. FFmpeg is actually remarkably annoying for example), but it's bloody reliable.
The entire point of "everything being a subscription" is a marketing ploy.
(Also revenue. "I forgot to cancel the subscription" pays the bills like no other, see Comcast's revenue.")
Subscriptions have to be renewed, subscriptions send billing emails.
All of these things create more "daily active impressions." And in the attention economy, the more daily active impressions you have, the more your net promoter score rises (any publicity is good publicity).
The reason it's tiring is that humans have FINITE ATTENTION.
We're living in "the attention economy." Subscriptions are simply the latest strategy to monetize our attention.
The cure is to cleanse your email inbox of all "SaaS" emails like it's a Covid outbreak. And to be genuinely distrustful of all subscription products.
It's the contrast between what primordial lizard brains want. And what reality actually is.
Often I see:
Lizard brain wants: Simple, agreeable, opinions from authority. Stated confidently.
Reality: Nobody is completely sure. Probably requires some nuanced discussion and critical thinking.
Problem is, if someone expresses an unconfident opinion. And I reckon I see this all the time:
Primordial lizard brain computes the message as:
"This person isn't knowledgeable. Reduction in status."
IMO there isn't a good way in life to say "I don't know" about a topic. Without primordial lizard brains treating that as a reduction in status.
It's a huge problem.
I think our brains are just wired to be attracted to simple answers, have a bias for action over discussion. And avoid deep, reflective, critical conversations.
What are the dimensions and dynamics here vs EPYC?