I sympathize, and I want to see DigiDNA find a way to succeed without compromising product quality. And it’s going to bite them in the butt.įirst, I imagine that the previous licensing model was not generating enough revenue to sustain continued, high-quality development of a remarkably full-featured application in what must be a very complicated technical space. The whole thing just smacks of something that some non-technical executive came up with and set their mind on without caring how customers might react to it.
They can limit the possibility of abuse of this by charging a fee to assign a slot back to a device that had previously been assigned and then replaced with another device, allowing only new devices to be swapped in without additional cost. You’re paying a not-insignificant amount every year for a bucket of slots iMazing shouldn’t care if the devices are changing, because they’re getting the money just the same. If they really can’t come up with any way to make the regular license have reassignable slots, the least they can do is have the subscription slots be freely reassignable. If you get a succession of lemons (which has happened to people before), you’ll burn through slots quickly, and since the subscription slots reset only once a year, having that doesn’t help you much, if at all. You’ve just lost a slot, through circumstances that were impossible for you to avoid. They determine that it’s defective, and since you’ve had it only a week, they’re just going to swap it out rather than make you wait for repair (and they’ll repair it later and resell it as a refurb). After a week, you notice that your new iPhone is having issues and you take it to the Apple Store to have it looked at. Suppose you upgrade your iPhone and assign it a slot. You still can’t reassign slots as needed with the family subscription, so if you have close to the full number of devices, you’re still screwed if you need to replace multiple devices.Įven one unexpected replacement screws you over here. Permanently linking a license to a device with zero options for reassigning that license to a replacement device is short-sighted, and having those links reset once a year doesn’t make it less so.
It’s still a choice between only bad options, so not really any better than I described the first time around. So with four devices, I can pay $75 once and get one extra slot (since you can’t buy only four slots) for when one device gets replaced, and then pay for a full new license every time I replace a device after that, or I can pay $90 every year for more slots than I’m likely to ever need. Even among my entire household, including the retired devices that haven’t been recycled or rehomed yet, I’ve got a grand total of seven iDevices, only four of which are in active use-and one of which is so old and decrepit that I haven’t even been able to power it on. Looking at that plan, it’s not exactly an attractive option for those of us with only a handful of devices. I missed that reference the first time around.
Is the only previous point in this entire thread when anyone has discussed a license option that doesn’t involve the permanent slots. I’d probably go with the iMazing Family Subscription license. Of course, none of these are as nice as the legacy licenses, which were licensed for an unlimited number of devices on a fixed number of computers, but it doesn’t look like that’s an option anymore, for any price. If you are frequently upgrading your devices, then a subscription ($90/year for up to 15 devices) may be more economical. If you have a small number of devices that don’t change very often, then the device license ($40-130 for 1-10 devices, unlimited upgrades) may work best. You can pick the terms that work best for you. It’s still slot based, but you’re paying for 15 slots and they reset each year when the subscription renews. They also offer a “Family Subscription”, which has an annual fee for up to 15 devices. You pay a perpetual license for a fixed number of devices. the “Device License” is the only one that works this way. Please take another look at the different licenses. Even a regular subscription is a better choice than this. There are better ways to ensure a continuing revenue stream than making people pay again solely because a device has changed. Tying a license to a specific device permanently is, in my view, a short-sighted idea that can only backfire.