Comment by MiddleEndian
3 days ago
I'm with you. I also hate automatic updates. Times when I want my software to behave differently from the day before without me requesting it: Zero.
It puts the incentives on the wrong spot too. They are no longer incentivized to make shit appealing enough to upgrade.
MeThree.
But I think it's not the case incentives are wrong but the reality of business - what do you do when things are feature complete in all the ways that matter?
I dunno, what does Jordan's Furniture do about the fact that the recliner I'm sitting on is feature complete and has been since 2005 and seems to be sturdy enough to last me for the next twenty years? Try to sell me something better, try to sell me different things, try to sell things to other people, and succeed or fail at those goals.
I haven't used a Mac in a bit but I remember liking BBEdit back in the 00s, and it still seems to exist without having a subscription model.