2,409 karma · joined March 4, 2011
If you go to anywhere in Europe you will find plenty of places that prove the opposite.
To you. There are pleeenty of people who want to write performant code in a safe manner.
I don't even think that that proves that this cannot be done... And I've seen A LOT of people try. But, things invariably start to break down, and at this point I just think that the statement above is more wishy washy than anything, though I want to believe...
I think it depends on the app. If it's something that I use frequently I want a subscription. Otherwise, not. The reason for that, is that I look at subscriptions as something I have to be convinced to continuously pay every month. That gives me a lot of power to just disconnect at a later time, and this means that those apps tend to listen to user feedback more often than other apps.