Mr. Nyhus, nobody of us can foresee the future and subscription apps – some “standard license models” turnt into it which appeared to “never do it”. So, even Nitro could go that way one day. Besides, as long as I can keep my files locally and the app will only stop to update but keep on working, the question arises “would I like to get paid my salary only once a year”?
About the team size I’m absolutely with you. However, bigger teams don’t necessarily help more/are faster/get better feature quality; coordination and quality management gets a much bigger weight. Also let’s not forget: in Aperture times Mr. Bhatt worked inside Apple, short ways from office to office, getting more informations quicker. If Apple would consider him to directly compete with their Pixelmator stuff, they had the power to block him. I’m very aware of this vulnerable situation. One bad car accident is enough to stop development.
On the other hand: I see Apple going their way into enshittification. Partly it’s just “something new I don’t want to adapt to” and partly it’s just “milking more cows using bigger buckets”. Something like “greed” apparently is on the skills list for new employees. I disliked Photos from the beginning, Music ruined hundreds of my playlists and since they pay one billion/year to Google to use their AI set partly, the last dusty particles of “think different” has been gone the Aperture path, too. For music I got a replacement – again, a one-man show. For Aperture I’ll never find a replacement and who knows how it would look like and work like if it’d be still around?
And I don’t know, if “just being a good affordable RAW converter” will help Nitro to survive. I’m hoping for, but limiting it to that has no USP. Others are low cost, too.