Generally speaking, in the outright purchase model the cost includes updates, but you have to pay again for an upgrade. I’ll distinguish here between upgrades, which replace your existing product with a major new version with additional features and capabilities, and updates which largely fix bugs and only bring minor improvements.
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The problem with outright purchase is how to handle updates and upgrades. Whatever the technicalities, in practice this has meant that you purchased a copy of the product, and provided that you kept within the terms of the licence, you could use it for an indefinite period. Software has always been a bit different, because it is intangible, and in the eyes of the vendor has only ever been ‘licensed’ to users. Or you can pay a monthly lease/rental/hire charge to use the vehicle without it ever becoming yours. You can borrow some or all of the cost, and repay that loan until you own the car. You can walk in to the dealer with a case full of money (or arrange an electronic transfer) and drive out owning the car completely. If you want to acquire a new car, there are several different mechanisms for funding it. Otherwise, what should have been good news, the launch of Setapp, turned into disappointment. This time the download was tiny, which cheered me up as I ground may way into the figures. This used to entail a full download of the updated app, but FileMaker has at last switched to incremental updating.
In a month when I have been using my business accounts database quite heavily – for annual income tax and quarterly VAT (sales tax) deadlines – I am used to facing at least one update to FileMaker Pro. FileMaker made my week, albeit in its customarily soft-spoken and modest way.
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