Trust me Hammy, nobody is likening MLO to QuickBooks and that's not necessarily a good thing. Still I don't think going to a subscription model would be wrong, I just don't think people would reasonably agree to do it because, well, after more than 13 years of this I just don't see what has improved enough to be worth paying for every version. MLO understands because they are not like Adobe in any way, so they honor my decision when I stayed on ver 2.0 (or 2.5) for 10 years.
I finally upgraded on release 5, hoping it would help both them and me... and maybe I would do a subscription but only if they finally organize how to change this base structure to accommodate API and scripting. But why would they do that after more than 10 years of ignoring the requests? Shoot they didn't even have resources to make a proper version for Apple computers. On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 8:36 AM 'Hammy Havoc' via MyLifeOrganized < [email protected]> wrote: > Alarmist nonsense. To liken MLO to Adobe or QuickBooks is bizarre. Adobe > makes a huge suite of products with an almost $16bn annual revenue, and > QuickBooks makes almost $10bn, and are a literal standard, regardless of > what you may think about it. > > I'm sure something as simple as a shared list with permissions can be > implemented without losing any kind of functionality. > > It's as simple as a displaying a second profile within the UI, and using > metadata to dictate permissions. > > If you think "this sharing phenomenon" is a gimmick then clearly you've > been living under a rock and have never used a project management system in > the last 20 years, or any of the modern day GTD apps that feature shared > lists. Even Microsoft To Do and Apple's Reminders feature shared lists, and > they're free and available in the OOBE on any modern-day device. > > On Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at 3:25:43 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > >> Agreed. >> >> >> >> I don’t like them either, mostly because I always feel that if the >> developer stops development for any reason (including retirement), I’m left >> with nothing. Also, by now everyone has experienced software that’s taken >> a big step BACKWARD. E.g. this “sharing phenomenon”, which I always >> thought a waste of time, has often resulted in dropping features. The most >> blatant example I know is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. I’ve used the same >> version for 6+ years. When I looked at the new Adobe Cloud that Adobe >> raves about, literally half the features were gone. >> >> >> >> Ditto for Quickbooks. I went from desktop to cloud…then called and >> cancelled my cloud, in favor of the feature-rich version I had been using. >> >> >> >> Thus, I can foresee the day when I read…”You can now have shared MLO >> lists for team work!”, but with it gone is advanced filtering, gone are >> hourly contexts, gone are text tags. >> >> >> >> Take Care, >> >> >> >> *Michael Emerald, CFA* >> >> >> >> *Performance Business Design* >> >> Owner, Business Strategy Consultant >> >> >> >> *From:* 'bs' via MyLifeOrganized <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Thursday, July 7, 2022 09:56 >> *To:* MyLifeOrganized <[email protected]> >> >> *Subject:* Re: [MLO] Re: MLO-Win v6 Ideas... >> >> >> >> I agree. I am not a fan of subscription models...especially for >> standalone software. I'd rather pay once at retain ownership. I'm happy to >> pay for upgrades. As I approach retirement, this becomes even more >> important to me. I want to retain capabilities that I have had. >> >> -Moirty >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 1:42:34 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: >> >> I personally hate the subscription model for apps and it is a huge >> deterrent for me when selecting whether or not to use something. I feel >> like I am already doing it with the cloud sync subsription, which makes >> some sense because there is ongoing infrastructure costs involved, and I am >> willing to pay for significant updates. I understand it is a more >> remunerative model for developers, but you will definitely lose customers >> going that way. As for the spiel about getting more updates, I personally >> don't see a huge amount more updating with software that I'm forced to rent >> instead of buy, and it actually seems to me if anything that the old update >> model creates more motivation to create meaningful updates that people are >> willing to pay for. If for financial reasons MLO went entirely >> subscription-based, I'd probably sign up because I'm a long-time user and >> many, many searches and trials have shown me that while almost everything >> else looks nicer (mostly talking about Windows), there's nothing out there >> with a comparable feature set. Just don't piss on my head and tell me it's >> raining...subscription models are all about generating more (and more >> steady) income. >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, June 1, 2022 at 5:40:22 AM UTC-7 daniel wrote: >> >> As I pull my hp IpaQ out of the drawer and now try to find the power cord >> to see if I left MLO on it :) >> >> >> >> On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 3:34 PM imajeff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Agreed; I too have used MLO since before there was a version number >> (syncing with my Microsoft PDA before a smart phone was possible). >> >> Ten years later I thought the difficulty with daily usage would be solved >> but now, even that was a long time ago and I struggle to maintain tasks. It >> seems mostly changing what would help me could hinder some other way >> someone uses it. Internally, it might require much planning plus a big >> rewrite, but they don't have funding to just hire another team to develop a >> whole new idea in parallel. Would be like a competition to see who wins >> becoming the next release (it's what Microsoft has done, and just drop the >> one that didn't win). >> >> But if they will redo it at least enough to allow some scripting language >> to check and modify things triggered by events, that would be a great start >> so others can help make normal usage work the way they need, sharing the >> ideas. Let's make MLO great again >> >> >> -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CAA1bVF%3Df2FAANDRc2qrbCMq02ZrMmWSabNdVCBGxczsEt7L4MQ%40mail.gmail.com.
