Just to let you know, I'm out, and why: Having to pay for yet another upgrade. "Purchasing" the software apparently means nothing. I feel like too much of a sucker already. I'll uninstall it before I install the next OS upgrade. Nice product, but not essential. I'm already finding solutions. And I'm putting a wrapper around the one program I need. Good-bye.
Hi AlexP3, We are eager to clarify a few things about our upgrade policies. Parallels Desktop upgrades are not mandatory and we provide special upgrade pricing to existing customers so that they can take advantage of new features and other important software including OS releases and enhancements.
"upgrades are not mandatory" -- lolz I remember the last "not mandatory" upgrade. Let's see: I upgraded my Mac's OS, and TADA! Parallels announced it would no longer work, unless I upgraded. It did nothing. So perhaps you mean, "not mandatory...if you don't want it to do anything at all any longer." Or when you say "not mandatory" you mean, "not mandatory...if you choose to leave your entire operating system locked in the past." Yes, then it would "not mandatory." Of course you offer "special upgrade pricing"-- the same amount it cost me to buy this software, the same amount I paid for the last upgrade. That's not "special upgrade pricing"; that's "buy it again and again pricing, sucker." So put up a link and show me your special upgrade pricing. I see $49.95. You've gotten that twice from me already. The joke is that you have a "subscription" for $49.95/year. Make no mistakes, everyone; even the purchase price is nothing more than a subscription because you will likely find Parallels needing 1 upgrade/year. You may be "eager to clarify" but you're not trying hard enough. You only assumed/hoped that I tied so much of my business to Windows that your program became essential. It's not. The Mac App Store is not shrinking and the cloud does not have no fewer options than it did last year. I do not need to pay another $49.95 to keep my business running; you've only given me the kick in the pants I needed.
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I should probably be a little more fair/accurate: every second version requires another purchase. You didn't make me buy P10. P9 somehow magically worked in Yosemite. And you have promised that if I buy P11 you'll give me the next version (P12?) as a "bonus." Cool. You know how many times I purchased every program on my Mac and phone? Once. Yeah. Done.
Same here. I decided to stop paying for upgrades after just 6 months ago I upgraded to PD10, now I have to pay again for PD11. WTH parallels!?. I'll continue to run PD10 until it is not supported any more and them move on. I've been testing VMware Fusion and I'm happy with it. Far fetter licensing terms for multiple computers and upgrades.
