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I really like Sketch's model and wish other apps that are going subscription would emulate it. It fixes the biggest complaint I have with subscription pricing which is that if you stop subscribing the app stops working and data produced in that app is now being held hostage.

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IntelliJ uses this model too.

But with IntelliJ you get downgraded to the version it had when you bought the license I think.

https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...

"When purchasing an annual subscription, you will immediately get a perpetual fallback license for the exact version available at the time (of the purchase)."

Parenthesis mine.

I believe the flow is

You buy version A (for full price) They upgrade you to version B (hoping you will pay the reduced price) When version C come out if you haven't paid yet you get reverted to version A

Did they commit to supporting backward compatibility?

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