I’m a PM who really dislikes the subscription model, especially for hardware devices.

I know this may be blasphemous for the product community but imo you can’t use OTAs or semi annual firmware updates (which were gonna happen anyway) to justify subscriptions.

Good product design puts the user first, and a one time cost of purchasing a product is a part of good user experience.

Several years ago we used to design products that lasted decades. This devolved into designing products with planned obs…