Subscription based applications

Glaucus

Glaucus

Active Member
Member
Joined
Apr 12, 2005
Messages
4,767
Reaction score
697
Good or bad?

I hate the idea, but am I alone? Can it be stopped?

MS is releasing their latest version of Office. You can use it for $100. Per year. Adobe does something similar with their products on a monthly basis. You own nothing but you pay about the same. How is this better for the consumer? And if I'm gonna rent the software, why not just rent something else like Google Docs (or Google Sites for businesses)?

It seems to me that we're slowly becoming digital peasants - we no longer own the digital land we live on. Is that a good thing? And if so, for whom?
 
Glaucus said:
Good or bad?

I hate the idea, but am I alone? Can it be stopped?
Click to expand...

Of course it can be stopped. People who can write it off may still use such things but other people will, by necessity, avail themselves of pirates - or go with an open solution. Having an open option will put a cap on the price. On the other hand - if patent trolling is brought into full force free software may be in danger. Only cure for that will be constantly phoning MPs and getting everyone you know to do it too.
 
Pretty much how my company works as well; the apps are free but server access (without which the app is useless) is rented.
 
What I think sucks more than anything is that application development is going that route. And I personally just can't stand Javascript, which is essential for html5 development. When I look in the paper for programmer jobs, that seems to be number 1 right now. C++ here in Winnipeg is an endangered species. Wish I could move my entire family to Toronto where C++ jobs are plentiful.
 
Glaucus said:
Wish I could move my entire family to Toronto where C++ jobs are plentiful.
Click to expand...

If you do that, let me know.
I'm hoping to be in that neck of the woods for a couple of weeks come August/September.
 
Glaucus said:
What I think sucks more than anything is that application development is going that route. And I personally just can't stand Javascript, which is essential for html5 development. When I look in the paper for programmer jobs, that seems to be number 1 right now. C++ here in Winnipeg is an endangered species. Wish I could move my entire family to Toronto where C++ jobs are plentiful.
Click to expand...
Javascript is what I've been doing for the last 4 months. Ugh. Makes me realize how much I need a compiler. We're using ExtJS for some remote config stuff and it just takes far too long, as far as I'm concerned. If I was fluent the language and the framework and never typed anything wrong I'm sure it would be different but things fail so obscurely sometimes and debugging is .. well, it gotten better over the 4 months with improvements in Chrome and IE9 but still ...
People are still trying to figure out best practice or even good practice. But what annoys me the most is just how much CPU and memory it takes these days to make a dumb terminal.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
Javascript is what I've been doing for the last 4 months. Ugh. Makes me realize how much I need a compiler. We're using ExtJS for some remote config stuff and it just takes far too long, as far as I'm concerned. If I was fluent the language and the framework and never typed anything wrong I'm sure it would be different but things fail so obscurely sometimes and debugging is .. well, it gotten better over the 4 months with improvements in Chrome and IE9 but still ...
People are still trying to figure out best practice or even good practice. But what annoys me the most is just how much CPU and memory it takes these days to make a dumb terminal.
Click to expand...
Thank god we shifted to GWT and Hibernate. Everything java, everything generic, very little requirement-specific code. Still, GWT has it's downsides.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
Javascript is what I've been doing for the last 4 months. Ugh. Makes me realize how much I need a compiler. We're using ExtJS for some remote config stuff and it just takes far too long, as far as I'm concerned. If I was fluent the language and the framework and never typed anything wrong I'm sure it would be different but things fail so obscurely sometimes and debugging is .. well, it gotten better over the 4 months with improvements in Chrome and IE9 but still ...
People are still trying to figure out best practice or even good practice. But what annoys me the most is just how much CPU and memory it takes these days to make a dumb terminal.
Click to expand...
Well, Chrome OS is pretty light weight, but, I know what you mean. I kinda detest this HTML5 thing (not because of CSS3, partially because of HTML and mostly because of Javascript). It seems that the faster our hardware gets the more overhead and bloat we tend to throw at it. That, plus I absolutely hate loosely typed languages. Ugh.

Anyway, Microsoft seems to think they know about best practices (however you'd never guess by running Windows). They have a web site that tests other websites (but only in regards to IE compatibility, as if that's important). I went to the trouble of testing whyzzat.com. It seems the site needs some improvements and may not be fully compatible with IE10. Not that it matters as IE10's only real purpose is to download Chrome or Firefox, but it's still kinda interesting.
 
Glaucus said:
Well, Chrome OS is pretty light weight, but, I know what you mean. I kinda detest this HTML5 thing (not because of CSS3, partially because of HTML and mostly because of Javascript). It seems that the faster our hardware gets the more overhead and bloat we tend to throw at it. That, plus I absolutely hate loosely typed languages. Ugh.
Click to expand...
Bloated it is indeed. But you can avoid writing in loosely typed languages by using GWT. Or make your own library that generates javascript, that too, is a possibility. Yea, I thoroughly and utterly hate loosely typed languages as well.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top