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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 8853756" data-attributes="member: 7023840">I think that this is a key factor. So many companies want to move their products to a subscription model. Which makes sense, individually. Think about it from the perspective of both the consumer and company-Company- Why get $50 now, when I can get $8 every month for years?Consumer- Why spend $50 to buy a single product, when I can pay $8 and access lots of products?So far, so good, right? But we rapidly get into a "tragedy of the commons" type of issue (well, if consumers were a common good ... it's not a perfect analogy!). As more companies switch to this model, the individual subscriptions which may not amount to much individually collectively amount to a huge figure.And as the model spreads, we see more and more companies adopting it even in areas that traditionally wouldn't have it (such as, most recently, the spread into automobiles where you pay a subscription to access your cars features). If you have a few recurring subscriptions, that's not a problem. But you can quickly end up with hundreds of dollars of these recurring fees- and more and more companies are switching to this model.</blockquote>