Imagine having a perfectly working calculator on your phone. Imagine it now connects to a server in the internet to perform the operations and give you the information back. Imagine then that the “x” multiply operation becomes a premium feature. Ah, and now the graphing feature for some functions becomes a premium feature.

This is the exact case with one workout tracker that I’ve been using for years already. I’ve always wondered, why do they want to log my data on the cloud if all the graphs, logs and metrics could be calculated on my phone?. Then I saw how some plots started disappearing from the standard free user plan. And now the core plots, the plots that are even the minimum they start to hide behind monthly payment.

Friends, have you seen this with other apps? Do you know of a feasible replacement for this shit?

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    41·
    9 days ago

    incredibly common but only for the last 30 years or so.

    it was far less obvious back in the old times as the release cadence was far greater. software release schedules have compressed now that everything is a ‘service’ ad update able online.

    ive been able to patch a few things putting features back in using ai.

    • Entire_Meaning8341@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      9 days ago

      Fuck, it’s also a thing that they start rolling out features and more features that make no sense, just to justify the value added every month, even if you are not using it.

      In the analogy of the calculator we could speak of sharing your operations with somebody else that uses the same calculator, 95% of the people would only want to perform x+y=z, why charging me for such a minimal feature?

      In the context of the app is looking at other’s scores…