I don’t mind paying for upgrades and in fact I have! I’ve been using 1Password for many years now (maybe started with version 3 in 2011!) and with each major update, I opted to pay for the upgrade. I really dislike that psychological burden of subscriptions: it feels like a never ending $ pit. I chose instead to go with TypeIt4Me which seems to be less powerful but good enough and importantly is not on a subscription model. I looked around for a while and opted NOT to go with TextExpander precisely because of its subscription model.
#Macpilot el capitan mac#
My work computer (a PC) has a text expansion tool that my institution pays for, but my home computer which is a Mac doesn’t have such software. When we started working from home, I opted to use my home computer rather than lug back home my work computer. I wonder how many people there keep paying because they have the sunk cost of everything being in TextExpander already. In fact, given these rumors, I have already licensed other options to start preparing for the possible abandonment of DevonThink.
#Macpilot el capitan software#
And if it is worthwhile for me to continue using a software that at the first change, forces me to export all the work to another program without any other option. Maybe not as much as the previous one, but if they go to subscription, I will have to evaluate very well if my machines will be compatible. And I have upgraded to DT3 paying thinking that I would be able to use that version for a long time. And in the end I have been paying more licenses even than the really used ones.
#Macpilot el capitan update#
In fact, in DevonThink I have bought several licenses, because they have allowed me to update to the latest versions without forcing me to pay anything. If not, I still use the version compatible with my hardware. As that is not feasible, neither for me nor for the manufacturers, I only plan to continue using software that I can buy with a final license. And if I pay at the price of gold, also diamond service: machines thrown away every year. In this case, you would only do it with a TOTAL renting: hardware and ALL software with open bar. If they don’t allow me to buy the software, they force me to go pirate or to constantly renew the hardware. I even recalled a G3 with classic a few months ago. I’m still using an iMac G5 and two Core Intel 2 Duo (Tiger and El Capitan). I am used to using machines as long as possible. And exclusively because they no longer allow me to use even old versions on my computers “obsolete” for Apple. I routinely use it for running maintenance scripts.I am unsubscribing from all my subscriptions, starting with Creative Cloud and Office. For example, it ready resolved an accidental ‘disabled option’ which preventing me accessing the multi-window overview of OS X. It is handy if you don’t know all the in-built system options.
The product has been through substancial redevelopment and shifts of some functionality to other Koingo products. I have 7.0.7 but the latest version 7.0.8 is only available from the developers web site. Good but the latest upgrades are not available on App Store. **With “El Captain” the app does nothing useful any more.** If this changes I’ll move this review to “obsolete”. I didn’t like this but it didn’t bother me, it had loads of useful customisations and refinements. Historically MacPilot moved some functions to MacCleanse … fair game, in addition I believe the best upgrades were purchased directly from their Web site. The rich funcationality MacPilot once had is gone - don’t buy. Final review … old version no longer works! Need to buy a whole new package for reduced functionality.
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