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Mij Adyaw - 23 Jun 2005 01:11 GMT

The new Yahoo mail application looks to be really good. The downside is that
it is subscription based and costs $3.00 per month. I wish that the
applications would go to a simple sales model in which the user could
purchase the program for a one-time price. I have never purchased an
application and probably never will because I am quite put-off by the
subscription based model. I believe in purchasing software for a one-time
price. Sprint Marketing, are you listening?

-mij

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Steve Sobol - 23 Jun 2005 01:28 GMT

> The new Yahoo mail application looks to be really good. The downside is that
> it is subscription based and costs $3.00 per month. I wish that the
> applications would go to a simple sales model in which the user could
> purchase the program for a one-time price.

Email can be considered a service, and monthly subscription models make
sense for services. For games and other such apps, I'd agree that one-time
fees are probably more appropriate.

>I have never purchased an
> application and probably never will because I am quite put-off by the
> subscription based model. I believe in purchasing software for a one-time
> price. Sprint Marketing, are you listening?

I believe the software publisher is also involved in product pricing. But I
could be wrong about that.

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Mij Adyaw - 23 Jun 2005 02:09 GMT

Steve,

The mail application is being advertised by Yahoo. I have been a paying
Yahoo customer for several years and therefore expect either free access to
a software application that accesses email, or a "one-time" price to
purchase the application. It seems that Yahoo is jumping on the bandwagon
and following the sales model of the cell phone service providers. I will
just stick with free access to my yahoo email by browsing the yahoo mobile
webpage. I am in the software development business and cannot get used to
this idea of a "monthly fee". It just goes against the grain for me. Call me
old fashion but I just cannot get over it! My company offers annual support
contracts, but all software has a one-time price to purchase a license.

-mij

>> The new Yahoo mail application looks to be really good. The downside is
>> that it is subscription based and costs $3.00 per month. I wish that the
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> I believe the software publisher is also involved in product pricing. But
> I could be wrong about that.

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larryt510@hotmail.com - 23 Jun 2005 02:50 GMT

I agree with Mij. It should have a one time price of say $20 or
something. The $3/mo. fee sucks and is overpriced.

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Bob Smith - 23 Jun 2005 13:39 GMT

> I agree with Mij. It should have a one time price of say $20 or
> something. The $3/mo. fee sucks and is overpriced.

And how is SPCS going to provide a credit, if the customer decides to cancel
that service after a month or two? You'd be pissed if you didn't get some
kind of prorated credit to cancel that service after a couple of months of
use.

Bob

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Tinman - 23 Jun 2005 16:56 GMT

>> I agree with Mij. It should have a one time price of say $20 or
>> something. The $3/mo. fee sucks and is overpriced.
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> didn't get some kind of prorated credit to cancel that service after
> a couple of months of use.

When you buy an application do you usually receive a "credit" several
weeks or months after you've purchased it? Generally, no. Same thing
here.

Now SPCS could offer both models: purchase it for X number of dollars or
subscribe to it for Y number of dollars per month.

I know I'm not going for the subscription model--certainly not at the
prices SPCS seems to want to charge (or their software suppliers). I did
buy a few games a few years ago, but they were not time-limited in any
way. That's about the only way I'd buy anything (and to be fair, there
are still MANY non-time-limited apps and games from SPCS).

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Steve Sobol - 23 Jun 2005 04:53 GMT

> The mail application is being advertised by Yahoo. I have been a paying
> Yahoo customer for several years and therefore expect either free access to
> a software application that accesses email, or a "one-time" price to
> purchase the application.

That's reasonable. I'm just saying that for certain types of applications,
the pricing model does make sense.

> this idea of a "monthly fee". It just goes against the grain for me. Call me
> old fashion but I just cannot get over it! My company offers annual support
> contracts, but all software has a one-time price to purchase a license.

But there are other companies that do offer software on a subscription
basis. It's not all that uncommon.

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Joseph Huber - 23 Jun 2005 03:31 GMT

> I wish that the
>applications would go to a simple sales model in which the user could
>purchase the program for a one-time price. I have never purchased an
>application and probably never will because I am quite put-off by the
>subscription based model. I believe in purchasing software for a one-time
>price. Sprint Marketing, are you listening?

Mij, I'm with you on this one. I hate that model as well, and I'm not
downloading anything thing that is subscription based (not that I've
found anything useful to download...)

I doubt if Sprint Marketing is listening. But if enough folks boycott
Sprint's apps and ringers that are marketed under the subscription
mode, they might notice that...

Joe Huber
huber.joseph@comcast.net

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