shaggybaxter said..
The real annoyance..... their annual license is now the costs of the old perpetual license.
I bought an app based logbook for work that cost a one off $80 period. A few years later it became a $125 a year subscription. While I get there’s constant costs in customer support, upgrades, updates etc, I was happy with the version that I bought and it’s just an excel based program anyway.
Navionics was the same. You bought the program, downloaded the area you were interested in (all of Aust if you wanted to) and it worked perpetually but without updates is you didn’t pay the annual subscription which was $19. Now if you don’t pay the annual subscription of nearly $100 it becomes unusable.
i enjoyed some hobby CNC work, but I can’t justify the annual subscriptions anymore.
The problem is literally everywhere.