Never let them forget this.
“BMW. Wait. Didn’t you want to charge a subscription to activate heated seats already in the car?”
“IBM? Don’t you guys ship dark hardware you then charge a fee to activate after it’s been purchased?”
“Oura. Don’t you ship a sleep tracker at a premium price, and then charge a monthly grift just to use the information it’s already sampling?”
And, with each one, laughter. Teasing, laughter and then shunning. Followed later by a recommendation to join a better company.
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There was a big outrage in the music production community a few months ago when Waves, one of the most popular plug-in companies, announced they’d be switching to a subscription-only model. That meant you could no longer outright buy and own their plugins, you had to pay for a monthly subscription. This pissed everyone off so much that they decided not to go forward with it lol.
I guess the lesson is: make your opinion clear to these greedy companies, vote with your wallet and maybe we can make them become less shitty. They will always do what makes them the most amount of money.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m just sad this anger didn’t work on Adobe.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 year ago
Well, what are you going to do? Use a competing product? Commercial practices aside, Adobe’s products are top of the line.
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Idk about others but I’ll happily use a slightly sub par product if it means sticking it to a shitty company. It’s called spite!