Our servers and team cost money every month, so if we charge a one time payment, than we have to find enough users every month to pay the bills. Recurring revenue means we get to focus on building a great product, rather than constantly trying to find new users. A product like that ends up costing about the same if you wanted to upgrade every-time they come out with a X.0 version, but we feel like you get a worse experience given the former reasons. Which means the app never gets better once you buy it. They'll also not going to add really great new features so you will upgrade to their new product when it comes out. For example, apps like cough Things cough, very explicitly stop development on version 2.0 when version 3.0 is coming out. It genuinely gives us a constant incentive to add the best features in every version to keep our Pro users. We also offer features like attachments, shared lists, etc. Your WeDo is backed up and synced online. since it's Reddit:Ġ) Our features cost money on an ongoing basis.

Great question! I think most companies try and be really wholesome about it, but I'll be honest why we and many others do this.

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