Originally Posted by
The Juice
There is zero reason to upgrade to version 7 if you use the ios and Mac version.
I have version 6 on my Mac and ios device and pay nothing a month after my initial purchase 2 years ago. Only drawback is I have to sync now via wifi, which isnt a big deal since Coradine has zero interest in turning cloud sync back on for version 6.
Version 7 has cloud sync but now its $50 a month if I want the ios program. I'll save the $50 and wifi sync it myself with my paid for version 6. Remember, its $50 now for the ios program, what will it be in 3 years? 5 years? Pandora's box, be careful if you open it.
I think you meant $50 a year?
I don't disagree with your logic, but you could find yourself in a position I was in. I had been using version 4 for years because it had been working fine, and the new features didn't really appeal to me. When Mavericks came out, version 4 no longer worked, so I had to keep a bootable drive with Lion just to maintain my logbook, and eventually the Wifi sync stopped working. I would have done something a year or two ago, but 6 had been out for a while and I didn't want to buy it only to have a new version be released shortly after. Finally 7 (or X as it's now called) came out, with this new pricing model. Do I like it? Absolutely not! Will I pay next year at full price? I dont know. But at $35 it was worth the upgrade from where I was, and pushes off the decision of switching or not at least until next year. I can say I downlaoded mccPilotlog to all my devices, and it's still locked up on my iPad, so it's got a long way to go to be a viable replacement for me.
Btw, upgrading from 4 wasn't easy. I had to send my logbook file to a friend with 6, he converted it to a 6 file, and sent it back to me for importing into X.
Long story short, sticking with 6 will work for now, but not forever. Eventually an unsupported version will become obsolete in the Mac OS.