Annual assessment

Perhaps what we need is a company in the middle to sell us subs to multiple apps, so that we pay it for the software we want, and every year it could send us a detailed list of all of the apps we’re using so we can decide what’s important to us. This seems like it would be beneficial not only to us, but also to developers. Robert Haack

These (abridged) letters were in response to us talking about software subscriptions in our weekly email newsletter, after the announcement that writing app Ulysses would switch from perpetual licenses to ongoing payments.

Darrell, what keeps us using Photoshop CS6, aside from familiarity, is Smart Objects. We’re aching for a rival that enables us to quickly drop new screenshots onto photos of hardware as easily as it does.

Robert, I think your concern is recognised by quite a few people in the software business, hence the arrival of Setapp at the start of 2017.