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Why we’re switching Ulysses to Subscription

Today, we are switching Ulysses to a subscription model. The short story is this (tl;dr): Our users expect a continuously evolving high quality product — and subscription is the only way we can truly deliver on that expectation.

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Let’s map this onto Ulysses for a moment: If you bought Ulysses at its launch in April 2013, you will now have received nine major feature releases. For free, at no additional cost. At least 80% of that originally purchased app have since been scraped and replaced. Its functionality has quadrupled during the same time.

Each of these nine updates required a considerable amount of time on our part, which of course translates into a considerable amount of development cost. But with customers ever only paying for the development of the current version — how did we manage to finance new versions then?

I disagree with this. Wholeheartedly. With Ulysses giving major releases away for free, I guess I don’t know how they expected to make any money. When I was developing software, building new releases, patching them, and so on I charged for major releases and gave the patches/updates away for free.

Panic and Pixelmator both sell new versions (1.0, 2.0) and typically give updates (1.2, 2.5) away from what I recall. Seems to be working for them.

I’ve bought both Ulysses for macOS and for iOS and they’re decent apps. But I don’t use them regularly^[1] and so their new subscription model makes me cringe. I don’t wanna pay for app subscriptions unless I have them open often enough AND they’re so awesome they make it worth the monthly fee. Every time apps license with a subscription I’m like “no thanks.” I don’t care if that’s where the industry’s headed.

Case in point: Adobe’s got some great products but I won’t move to Creative Cloud, even more so when reading the criticisms. I’m in Photoshop and InDesign almost daily^[2] but I’m not paying $40 to use both those guys. $40 a month. I got enough bills.

Subscriptions are good for a service, not for a product.

#software #ulysses

1. Markdown seems more for nerds than writers. I have a novella in Ulysses and it won’t render as an eBook without screwing up the formatting. And also the linking in Markdown has never looked right to me. ↑

2. I would use Pixelmator full time over Photoshop but I just can’t. If I have a JPEG that I want to quickly crop, Pixelmator will do that but then when I go to save it wants to save it to its own PXM file format. Then I gotta go through the whole razze dazzle of saving as JPEG. And then after that I close the image and Pixelmator again wants me to save as a PXM. The horror. ↑

Abused bull has been chained his whole life, has emotional reaction when he’s finally freed

Bandit the bull lived a life tied to a chain. The bull has never known a life of freedom and liberty. This all changed when a man came to rescue him. The bull’s reaction to freedom is quickly going viral.

#videos #animalrights #naturerocks

An eclipse chaser explains why the rare celestial event shouldn’t be missed

The experience can be addictive, Baron says. A total solar eclipse lasts only a few minutes — just a couple minutes on August 21st, depending where you are — but those few minutes can give you a “feeling of incredible connection to the universe,” he says. During a total solar eclipse, the day turns into night, and all of a sudden you can see the planets appear in the sky. You can also see the Sun’s wispy outer atmosphere, called the corona, the jets of light and rays shot into the surrounding universe. “It’s just the most breathtakingly beautiful, I daresay, glorious sight in the heavens,” Baron says.

So for me here in Central Time on August 21st I need to be out watching around 1:10pm. At 1:18pm it’ll be 87% which is the highest peak in our area.

The next one won’t be until 2024 so don’t miss out.

#cosmos #eclipses

An afternoon conversation between Maggie and myself. About a doggo… 🐶

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#photos #photogallery #maggie

I just spent over 45 minutes setting up a new WiFi router since my AirPort Extreme was flaking out. God do I hate screwing with shit like that anymore.

#technology

Audio (MP3): 20170810 - Seeking colorful Christian martyr to repel repeated Jehovahs Witness

I have a sign but they keep coming back. I need you to intimidate them, get them away from my doorbell, and off my porch. For good. For permanently. I want you to make them feel like the Hindus did when holy-roller Robertson said they were all demonic.

I need you to channel that Christian snobbery. That elitism those grade school girls threw at me when I was just a kid. When they told me I was going to hell. Because I wasn’t saved. And they most certainly were going to heaven. Because they were. They were gonna see their grandparents and everything. 😞

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I seriously cannot stop taking pictures of these guys. I’m sorry… 😞

#photos #moonflowers

First time I’ve ever made 🍕pizza at home, including the dough.

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#photos #photogallery #pizza

Peeps, you’re welcome.

#coupons #frenchfries