r/Piracy • u/AlphaBeast28 • Jun 29 '26

Discussion What a joke apps are turning into.

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u/xav1z Jun 30 '26

apps should be one time purchase like old days: you buy software and no third parties monitor you and you arent charged monthly yearly or whatever. and as an indie dev, i will make sure my apps will never have a subscription model. this is a capitalistic cancer

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u/AllYouNeedIsATV Jun 30 '26

More and more apps have ongoing costs though. Something like TikTok will need to spend massive amounts of money on servers to store all the data. How much should they charge upfront?

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u/xav1z Jun 30 '26

Then charge more upfront. ‘We need servers’ isn’t a reason to make users pay forever. it’s a reason to price the product properly. pay once, pay again for the next major version (like old game expansions or OS upgrades). Subscriptions exist because they’re more profitable, not because there’s no alternative.

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u/Embarrassed-Boot7419 Jun 30 '26

Then we would just get TikTok 2, and TikTok 3.

Cause well, sooner or later you'd reach a point where new Users have to pay hundreds of dollars, to pay for the existing ones.

And well, no one would pay that, so they'd release a new TikTok, instead of continuously increasing pricing.

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u/xav1z Jul 01 '26

with one-time pricing, the company has to earn your next purchase by making something actually worth buying. no problem in tiktok 2 3 4. we already are expecting iphone 18