Typeit4me mac review upgrade#
Having read a lot of negative user feedback on Twitter about the subscription model, I am convinced, this step towards recurring payment makes perfect sense, because there is one big advantage for customers: constant improvement of the software.ĭevelopers usually support old versions (bug fixes) until a new release or big upgrade is ready for sale. This is no big deal for me, as I do not save confidential information in snippets.
In other reviews I learned that snippets are stored on external servers without encryption. I fully recommend this upgrade for any multi-platform-user (Mac, iOS, Windows). I am thrilled to see the TextExpander-magic on Windows, as I am forced to use Windows for work related tasks. I am a long-term user of TextExpander and just upgraded to the new subscription-based TextExpander 6. I can still use the old iOS app and iCloud syncing, which seems to work fine. But switching back to TextExpander 5 after 2 years with TE6 meant losing almost no features. It's a nice theory, and I've seen places that did it well (1Password seems like a good example). Moving to a subscription does _not_ guarantee that the development process will improve. Scroll back through the comments here and you'll see that people had been complaining about weak upgrades back to TextExpander 4's release. I can't think of a single meaningful feature that they have added in the two years since switching to a subscription service. Two years of TextExpander-as-service disproves this theory. Aside: quoting the comment below "Having read a lot of negative user feedback on Twitter about the subscription model, I am convinced, this step towards recurring payment makes perfect sense, because there is one big advantage for customers: constant improvement of the software.
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