Adam Brannon

How about actually using the graphic you are trying to misrepresent? The PNG at the top of the forum page is fully scalable as shown in the attachment. Note, the image is also part transparent, so click on it to see it as it is meant to be viewed. Just as clean at most any zoom level.

Besides music, I also work with photography and graphic arts. Vector Graphics = Scalable. They are one in the same. Raster or bitmapped graphics are not. They are a collection of dots per inch (DPI) that create an image. The larger you zoom the image, the more pixelated they get. Vector graphics use point to point calculations and draw lines between points. No matter the zoom rate, it is still a line between points. No pixelation. The new 'vector graphics' UI will mean that the interface will be clear and sharp regardless of zoom, scale or size.

It would be nearly impossible to maintain a pricing structure like this. The standard in the software industry is a price that comes with 1 year of free update (bugs, features, etc). At the end of that year, you have a choice, pay for another year of updates or don't. Regardless, you still have a working piece of software. This scenario is technically a subscription, whether you pay once a year or every month. When you decide not to pay anymore, you no longer get updates. But the software as it sits at that point in time is yours to keep using as long as you choose. You get what you paid for, no more, no less. There are very few companies that have a "pay or loose access" type of subscription model. ProTools is one of them. Adobe is another. As mentioned in an earlier post, I think the term 'subscription' is being highly misinterpreted.