This may be considered #HotTakes by some, I consider these #based: (no ragebait inteded!)

If you have a problem with these, please kindly fuck off in silence!

This list is non-exhaustive...

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Dịch vụ không phải lúc nào cũng phải dạng SaaS. Một số giải pháp lại phù hợp hơn khi bán lần duy nhất. Đừng sợ cấu hình mua một lần, MRR không phải chỉ tiêu duy nhất. Khai thác giá trị ngay lập tức, tránh chi phí đăng ký!
#SaaS #OneTimePurchase #SubscriptionFatigue #DịchVụ #MuaMộtLần #ViệtNam #Business #Tech #Innovation

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1p6p2bv/not_everything_needs_to_be_a_saas/

Rather it's because it's a literal #OneTimePurchase #Arcade Board, cuz most modern #ArcadeSystems like #SEGA's #ALLS have extreme #DRM and "#RevenueSharing"-based #licensing for games and locked-down Hardware

  • And that is also pissing off #Arcades because not all of them want to merely "rent" #Games and pay monthly #subscriptions + #royalties but hat a fixed price and the ability to just calculate down depreciation over years.
Sega Accidentally Made A Gaming PC... And I Bought One

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#OneTimePurchase #macOSApp

@snow IMHO #piracy should only be considered "#theft" [with damages being limited to the cost of properly licensing it!] if the pirated material was still offered for licensing new under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.

In the past, #EA did offer to replace broken discs / cartridges for a nominal fee [AFAIK €10 per disc or €15 for double-discs] if people mailed in the original (broken) media. I'd say that is should apply to everything, tho granted that only allows people in theory to deal with #DiscRot (assuming the publisher is able and willing to perpetually honour this service), not allowing them to legally attain new licenses.

#Valve & #Steam legally workaround this by merely providing access and not a #license per-se.

  • Still, I think #piracy in almost all cases is (as GabeN correctly said:) "A services problem!" and if a product is fairly priced and then people will be willing to pay for it.

I just think that the rampant Enshittification of even #PhysicalMedia is unsustainable and I wish for an #OpenSource #competitor to #BDXL and it's #OnlineDRM!

#NotLegalAdvice #sarcasm #Copywrong #Copyright #Ownership #Enshittification

@sodiboo @tauon @puppygirlhornypost2 @silly

Worse is even the #Tablet market: #Android #Tablets may be plentyful if you just go sheer listings, but in terms of #MarketShare they are negigible in "the global north" and thus not interesting for #developers to even bother adapting or testing for unless they themselves are #GAFAMs.

  • It's really fucking sad when @thunderbird is one of the few #Apps that I know that properly use Android Tablets' screen estate at all. Allegedly #Microsoft's own Apps do so as well but I myself have no #AndroidTablet and can't bring myself over the gag reflex trying to sideload #OneNote or any other App and having to deal with yet another shitty account...

Whereas on #iPadOS you get AA+ and #IndieGames worth their money by a long shot.

  • Don't even get #developers like @fuchsiii started on how piss-poor premium Apps on #Android sell and how that Tablet segment is essentially dead outside of markets where people can buy a house and a years' worth of necessities for the price of a single #iPad...

And that's why there are only #PayToLoose / #P2L aka. "#PayToWin" / #P2W games for #Android as #piracy is rampant and statistically noone is willing to pay for a #OneTimePurchase #Game on that platform.

@FediFollows or even if tools like @kdenlive ain't fitting, at least consider #OneTimePurchase #CCSS (i.e. #DaVinchiResolve) instead of #enshittified #Subscription-only #SaaS!

@CenTdemeern1 +9001%

OFC they gonna axe #Windows & #MicrosoftOffice anyway in favour of #subscription-only #Saas like #XboxGamePass, #Office365 / #Microsoft365 & #Azure because that's where the real margins are, not with #OneTimePurchase products!

Why Does Linus Pirate Windows??

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@mgorny nodds in agreement

We need to reestablish 1990s & 2000s standards and do better as in helping people use #FLOSS or real #Freeware and if they can't avoid #CCSS at least choose those that are #OneTimePurchase without #DRM...