How (not to) get milked dry through subscriptions and digital products.

Subscriptions have a great benefit: constant updates and improvements.

On the other hand, subscriptions come with a significant drawback: constant updates and improvements.

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I bought it, so where is it?

One day you wake up to find out that an application, movie, song, or service no longer works for your region, version of operating system, device type, etc. It does not matter that you paid for it, it is gone, because it never existed in the first place.

My frustration might be an old person yelling at the clouds, but I remember age when it was possible to actually own things. Now I am paying for imaginary products that are not even guaranteed to exist tomorrow.

Like the purchases made on Apple App Store or Apple iTunes Store that still make me mad.

I have purchased an application for a fee that was higher than subscription, but it was supposed to be for “lifetime”. Except the terms do not exactly specify what “lifetime” we are talking about. In this case it was a lifetime of a device. I was forced to update my phone (corporate policy requirement) and the application could no longer be installed on the new device.