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![]() ![]() Next time it will be $99 a month for those who use ultimate version.Īnd many here like pro tools. Step two, once apple changes again, they will just cut the perpetual update and move everyone to yearly subscription. No more new perpetual license and whats out there as retail stock is the last licenses. Its that eventually your perpetual licesne will not work. The issue is not whats happening today with this news. And if pro tools was more used then poeple woudlnt mind paying for the upgrades once they need them, it will still generate enough revenue. Avid is banking on one daw while adobe has the cloud which contain digital assets, other good apps etc. But in this case imo, the solution would be to offer more for the sub. Its a good point on the apple side changing so much and lack of older compatibility that chnages some companies biz models. It doesn't look like there are any actual changes? Are there less tracks for Vanilla PT? Um, I mean PT Studio? I don't really care what they want to call it. ![]() So I'm not quite sure what we are all getting up in arms about now. ![]() I look at my account and it is the same as two years ago when they first talked about making the service portion mandatory. And it seems it is not changed really for perpetual license holders who have continued to pay their annual fee. But now they require the support portion they used to make optional. It's more than I pay for Cubase because I take advantage of the discounts/grace period upgrades, but for me it was worth it. I really didn't mind paying $99/year to keep my ProTools updated. Subscription payments are regular and provide this. But if you are spending all your time trying to make the product continue to work every time the OS changes, you need a steady flow of income. You can't really charge your users for "new" versions that are primarily to make it work on updated computers. I really think the main reason for the subscription model is because of this. I mean, I'm still using programs from 2006 on Windows 10 without a problem. Think about all the time they would have to make new features or fix old bugs if they weren't having to keep up with the constantly changing Apple architecture. I have to say, as a Windows user, I find it really annoying how software developers - in this case, primarily DAWs and effects programs - have to spend so much of their time fixing their programs to work with Apple upgrades. ![]()
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