Especially when you consider what you're getting - which is, quite literally, what you already had before.

Something about that just doesn't leave me feeling good about forking over my money for this effort.īut the bigger part of it, I think, is the value proposition involved: Plain and simple, 40 bucks a year ain't cheap for an app of this caliber. Part of it is the way the change was presented, as my pal Phil Nickinson emphatically explored over at Android Central. I think my struggle to accept this is stretched across a couple different areas. What Pushbullet's presenting isn't really an upgrade for those who pay but rather a downgrade for those who don't In short, some of the app's functionality will continue to be free - but in order to get the full set of features available to everyone today, you'll have to put 40 bucks a year into the developers' pockets.

That's why I'm struggling to sort out my feelings on this morning's news that Pushbullet is shifting to a 'freemium'-style model as of December 1st.

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