You're right. The fact that people can make outsize rewards from subscription services are the reason that even small single use tools are now 'services'.
I have a piece of software that removes the background from my video feed. It's a subscription, and it regularly phones home.
I have a piece of software that lets me visually combine, rotate and reorder pdfs. It's a subscription.
Even the simplest things, like a 'torch' are ad-supported on android these days.
It's miserable fighting off a million people who want to help me for 'less than the daily price of your coffee'.
And that's ignoring the fact that so many of these subscriptions are really quite expensive - they adopt the standard cloud pricing of 9.99 per month, even when the service they're offering is not much difference than what a $5 piece of shareware would have provided in the distant past.
I have a piece of software that removes the background from my video feed. It's a subscription, and it regularly phones home.
I have a piece of software that lets me visually combine, rotate and reorder pdfs. It's a subscription.
Even the simplest things, like a 'torch' are ad-supported on android these days.
It's miserable fighting off a million people who want to help me for 'less than the daily price of your coffee'.
And that's ignoring the fact that so many of these subscriptions are really quite expensive - they adopt the standard cloud pricing of 9.99 per month, even when the service they're offering is not much difference than what a $5 piece of shareware would have provided in the distant past.