A new subscription option combining Designer Pro and Xara Cloud

[handrawn]

That's correct. That is why I referred to it as "Subscription Model".

I tried to be clear that the Update Service renewal was for any old-style version not the Pro+. I said '"perpetually-owned" XDPX' to show it was not the Pro+ subscription I was referring to.

Told you it was complex.

Acorn

I thought the point worth emphasising - plus it is never ideal that discussion gets split across threads...

not unexpected as I also said, at least not to me; it's an obvious step forward [for the company], and if it works in the sense that uptake is good it will generate income

it will also mean xara has moved to a 'full subscription' model, something they were at pains to point out the exisiting magix desktop model is not when it came out

in due course I would expect the desktop part of the '+' model to morph away from the exitsting magix destop model that will gently fade away

[better leave it at that - don't want the mods to tick me off for going too far, like they did the last time I opined about xara's love [or lack of it] for the magix model]

[Acorn]

I thought the point worth emphasising - plus it is never ideal that discussion gets split across threads...

I positively chose this Forum as the majority of TGers will read into it. The Xara Cloud one might never register with them.

Acorn

[handrawn]

sure....

but from xara's point of view it is cloud first with designer pro in support.... not the other way round