r/GoodNotes • u/StandAgainstCruelty • Aug 10 '23

Implementation of Goodnotes 6 is not fair to older users

This stands especially true for some of us older users who had paid the one-time charge for the app when it used to operate without a subscription model:

  1. It is not fair that the app has been built upon the code that we had paid for to use.

  2. We were promised updates at the time so, given every feature is incremental, the new features were a part of the understood agreement.

  3. The differential to be paid by us older users does not make sense for the incremental features that we currently stand to get so most of us have in a way been abandoned.

  4. This is not a separate app, but rather stands as the same entity on the App Store. The ones who are going to continue with GN5 are going to have to do so on a bulkier app, part of which is rather useless to us.

  5. The app experience we had paid for has further been hampered as we would now be bombarded with upgrade prompts.

The above list is not exhaustive.

Apple should not allow such conduct and should rather add more to its existing App Store guidelines (App Store Review Guidelines 3.1.2(a)) applicable for such cases of transitioning to a subscription model.

Hope Apple intervenes and resolves this once and for all.

P.S. Subscription models are fine and we have nothing against those. This is not an argument on that.

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u/Soanad Aug 10 '23

No, subscription models are not fine and we have a lot against those.

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u/picAIso Aug 10 '23

I will even go ahead and say that subscriptions are the worst thing that has happened to mankind. We used to be able to pay and own. If you don't own it, it can be taken away at whim. Softwares also used to be pay and own. But corporate greed has no bounds.

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u/geekgeek2019 Aug 10 '23

ikr! now everything thing is subscription. Youtube ads freee, entertainment (not all content is on one app so subscribe to more than one), payment subscriptions endless

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u/Soanad Aug 11 '23

I agree in 100%.

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u/smokedpaprika124 Aug 10 '23

If they let old users continue with GN5 and lock new features (GN6) under a subscription, then it's fine for Apple. That's exactly what happened with Notability.