I completely get that feeling. However, they make a pretty good case. Good enough to convince me at any rate. I'm in this for the long haul. I want a tool which will not suddenly disappear or be left to age ungracefully. Not so long ago, there were some wonderful audio games which even had famous voice actors like Sean Bean as narrators. They're gone now because the developers couldn't make enough profit to keep in business making games. Papa Sangre and Audio Defence can't be bought anymore and you'd need older hardware to run them. I never got to win any of those games before they reached the point where they wouldn't work on new versions of iOS. That's what can happen when you pay once and everyone else interested has also paid once.
The subscription model gives them the income they need to keep working on Ulysses in a more considered way than with other apps. With a one-time feee, you buy what you get but there's no funds or obligation for the developer to keep working on it. Also, in order to attract more customers, you need to make big changes with that in mind rather than the more considered changes you make when you rely on people sticking with you who like what you offered at the time you subscribed. When I've put in tech support requests, I've gotten consistantly reasonable good responses. They're a small company but they really care about problems faced by subscribers. I don't think blind people make a huge percentage of their subscribers but they nevertheless address accessibility issues as that's possible. Frankly, I'm in this out of pure interest to see how a steady income changes app development and mind set for these folks. I want to see how thing develop over the years presuming they manage to last. They['ve gotten tonds of attention from writers so I think they have a very good chance of staying the corse and keeping their subscribers happy. Anyhow, that's why I got on board. It's not perfect. There's a movement lag when yo first move onto a document with Voiceover. However, writing works fine but they're going to improve movement of the cursor with VoiceOver as soon as they can. It's good enough that I'm more than willing to put up with a few things in order to have the rest. I'll keep an ear on this threas to see what other people may have found when it comes to writing apps. On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 8:08 PM kelby carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > I totally understand a subscription model for a service like Spotify where > you're paying for access to a catalog. But not with something like a > writing tool for personal use; a one-time charge makes more sense from my > perspective. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 6, 2017, at 5:44 PM, Michael Feir <[email protected]> wrote: > > I personally find Ulysses worth the subscription. It'll be even more the > case once they deal with a touch of cluggishness navigating with VoiceOver. > That's on the agenda. One alternative you may want to check out is Bear. I > don't believe it's a subscription model app. There's also Scrivener. Pages > from Apple is their free word processor. I didn't like it but others may > find it suits them. You might also want to try Microsoft Word which is free > on iOS. Hope that helps. > > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 5:30 PM Stephanie Mitchell < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I use byword. It is similar but a little cheaper. >> >> Steph >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: K. 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