+1 on charging for Cloud Service. I am also wishing to be able to pay to vote for upcoming features
Zainan Victor Zhou, 周载南 650-336-5691 On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:37 PM, James D <develope...@gmail.com> wrote: > From the perspective of an enthusiastic user of other "dead" PIM programs > of the past, most notably Ecco Pro, a great outliner-based PIM program... > When I put my life and information and plans and schemes and goals into a > program like MLO, the last thing I want is for the company producing that > software to go belly-up. > MLO cloud fees are a small price to pay for being able to count on having > the features of this awesome program available year after year. > > For example, Google sells advertising. That's their business model. They > can afford to "give away" things that help their business model, or give > them a competitive advantage that leads people to the part of the business > where they make money. At last check MLO was not in the business of selling > ads, just the business of providing great personal productivity software on > PC, Mac, and mobile platforms. How else can MLO stay in business and pay > their developers if they can't make money somewhere? I guarantee you don't > want to be a loyal user of a dead program from a company that no longer > exists. MLO's cloud fees are reasonable enough. Servers and bandwidth and > people and systems to monitor them and keep them up aren't free, so MLO has > an expense to cover in providing the service. MLO even provides us a way > to sync over WiFi and other options so we are not "forced" to use the cloud > service. However, being able to use cloud sync is such a big productivity > booster, to me it's worth paying a few bucks every year or two. > > It's a small price to pay to ensure the ongoing viabiity of a program > whose primary agenda is to help US be more productive, without us being > funneled and forced into other agendas like happens with Google, Microsoft, > Apple, Amazon, etc. Don't get me wrong, I love and use products from all > those companies. > > P.S. I'm hoping before long their might even be a "skill" developed for > Amazon Echo so that "Alexa, add a task to my to-do list, buy my girlfriend > a Seattle Sounders jersey for Christmas", and have that task added to my > *MLO* to-do list, instead of the lame Amazon Echo one. Oh yes, and "Alexa, > add a task to buy tickets to MLS Cup at 7 pm pacific time tomorrow". > > > On Saturday, November 19, 2016 at 3:51:30 PM UTC-8, MG wrote: >> >> Andrey, >> >> I guess I was misunderstood. >> >> I did not meant that MLO would have to be free at all but, only the cloud >> sync service. >> >> I do not agree of free app or whatever product, and regarding MLO would >> not be too, since it is a good app. >> >> But regarding the cloud sync service, what is the main reason to keep it >> under charge? >> >> I think MLO Team would have to reconsider this issue, since those who >> bought the app or the windows version would have this cloud sync for free, >> in my opinion. >> >> Because this subscriptions works like a limitation for the app in >> everyday usage. >> >> >> MG >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/mylifeorganized/ca241099-015e-4b22-b531-47544a479cec%40googlegroups. > com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/ca241099-015e-4b22-b531-47544a479cec%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CAMVAm0xNQ2h_U58YLbaLD%3Do8v6fuRCkBMrr773%2B745HA3f%2B6DA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
