A browser with a subscription. I have no words. People try to make money out of anything. And they succeed in this. The world is an insane place, really.
Imagine someone came out with a browser that synced and allowed you to view/test your app in the days of ie6/7/8/9 across all those browsers. Would charging money per month for that be so weird?
This isn't for anyone to use as their normal browser.
So...software developers who mimic the real world. If I walk by a fruit stand, a grocery store, or a booth at a fair selling homemade crafts; I don't expect anything to be free. It is the exception when they are handing out free samples.
In the software world, too many expect everything in the store to be free (as in beer). Each software product represents real effort on someone's part, so it is not insane to expect them to want some compensation for that.
With software development the only thing lost with giving it away for free is the opportunity cost that someone might have paid for it.
So I don't think physical products and software can be compared like that
That doesn't change that they're different in reproducibility...
This is just a different approach. Provide a product (a browser), charge people that want that product.
They are making lots of money with a very useful and nice-looking tool.
What's your excuse?
All these years where megacorps gave people stuff for free have tainted the minds of many.
If you questioned the subscription model over the perpetual license, that would be somehow acceptable, but assuming everything must be free is just non sense.