Re: Subscription Pricing:
I always try to avoid subscription pricing when data storage is involved for the following reasons:
- You have to keep paying for the product, even when you are no longer actively using it in order to access historical data.
- If the company abandons the App or ceases business, you may be faced with the prospect fo loosing all your data unless the data is stored in some kind of a universal format.
- You often cannot abandon the App if a competitor comes out with a better product without loosing all your data.
The bottom line is that if you use a subscription App for data you are locked into that product on a fee paying basis for as long as you want to access your data or the company supports the product.
For those thinking ‘Export’, exporting data into a different format is not required or guaranteed to work.
As a side issue, subscriptions hinder development as once the developer has enough subscribers to insure an effective profit, their is little financial incentive to improve the product as customers can abandon the product without losing access to their data.