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Originally Posted by Moody Mike
We are pissed off because they want us to pay more now for an annual subscription than what we paid for the charts. Now many of you have 1 folio but a few of us have most if the world charts it will cost us a fortune to update . We bought the app & charts because of the free updates & many like myself contributed to those updates supplying new data. If i buy something then they want me to pay for it again & again im not going to be happy about it. I understand that some prople will have unlimited funds & to them it will seem like we are carrying on but most of us are sailors we spend our money on boats we will always be poor.
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You’re conflating two issues here.
You can continue to use iSailor with all of your already purchased charts and not pay anything more - just don’t update the charts. Simple. For now, that’s what I’m doing - quit with the wealthy trope. Or, just update the charts for the area in which you’re currently located - it’s not like you’re simultaneously
boating in every chart area that you have (actually, I don’t know if you can selectively
purchase updates for some but not all charts, and I also don’t know whether you’re a worldwide
delivery skipper liable to be using charts for widely different areas of the world).
You are upset that they have changed their terms and now charge for chart updates. Yes, that’s upsetting, but really, is it that big of a deal? It’s not open source
software and companies often change their business models.
Are there any other apps that provide you with free chart updates? If so, easy switch, as while you’ll have to pay for a new set of charts you will get the free updates you seem to feel is your right. If nobody else offers free updates, then what’s the difference whether you continue to use iSailor or switch to a different app?
Buying and updating charts, the same as
buying annual tide and
current tables and other such
navigation aides, or annual
insurance, or a host of other things, are just part of the cost of going to sea in boats.