TeamViewer and Quicken have both already transitioned to SaaS only, and it sucks.I _hate_ software leases or subscriptions, because I'm never through paying.
If I _BUY_ a car, it's mine; I can keep it. Other than gas and maintenance, I don't have to keep paying. When I _BUY_ my house, it's mine, with the same caveats. If I rent an apartment or lease a car or subscribe to SaaS software, when I stop paying, it disappears and I have nothing to show for my money.
If I _BUY_ a car, it's mine; I can keep it. Other than gas and maintenance, I don't have to keep paying. When I _BUY_ my house, it's mine, with the same caveats. If I rent an apartment or lease a car or subscribe to SaaS software, when I stop paying, it disappears and I have nothing to show for my money.
Yeah but why would you own a car? Then you need to register it, maintain it, get a yearly safety test, it takes up space in your garage. Why not just sign up for a car as a service and make all that someone else's problem.
Okay so your car has one use case, let's change the engine size: Have you ever been gokarting? Did you buy the gokart, or use their Gokart as a Service option?
Because rental cars work out poor value over the long term
For your use case maybe, but certainly you can't generalise that. Me, I own a car because it's my use case as well. My brother, well he pays less for his car sharing service a year than I do every quarter for registration.
and don't cater to enthusiasts
Now you're asking the right question. Use cases, desires, not generalities. Just like gocarts I know someone who bought a gocart. He's an enthusiast.
Well it's not really long term use if you sign up to a car sharing service and use it occasionally. You're basically just renting a car on an occasional basis, not long term. For someone who needs a car on a daily basis, renting usually works out very expensive.
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TeamViewer and Quicken have both already transitioned to SaaS only, and it sucks.I _hate_ software leases or subscriptions, because I'm never through paying.
If I _BUY_ a car, it's mine; I can keep it. Other than gas and maintenance, I don't have to keep paying. When I _BUY_ my house, it's mine, with the same caveats. If I rent an apartment or lease a car or subscribe to SaaS software, when I stop paying, it disappears and I have nothing to show for my money.
And "NEW!!!" features in SaaS offerings are gene
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If I _BUY_ a car, it's mine; I can keep it. Other than gas and maintenance, I don't have to keep paying. When I _BUY_ my house, it's mine, with the same caveats. If I rent an apartment or lease a car or subscribe to SaaS software, when I stop paying, it disappears and I have nothing to show for my money.
Yeah but why would you own a car? Then you need to register it, maintain it, get a yearly safety test, it takes up space in your garage. Why not just sign up for a car as a service and make all that someone else's problem.
Okay so your car has one use case, let's change the engine size:
Have you ever been gokarting? Did you buy the gokart, or use their Gokart as a Service option?
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Because rental cars work out poor value over the long term, and don't cater to enthusiasts who want to customise their cars at all.
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Because rental cars work out poor value over the long term
For your use case maybe, but certainly you can't generalise that. Me, I own a car because it's my use case as well. My brother, well he pays less for his car sharing service a year than I do every quarter for registration.
and don't cater to enthusiasts
Now you're asking the right question. Use cases, desires, not generalities. Just like gocarts I know someone who bought a gocart. He's an enthusiast.
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Well it's not really long term use if you sign up to a car sharing service and use it occasionally. You're basically just renting a car on an occasional basis, not long term.
For someone who needs a car on a daily basis, renting usually works out very expensive.