why not offer a "Lifetime" licence, not a year by year option. might make a lot more loyal CCleaner users think about signing up & not just keep on using the Free version.
Something for the powers to be to think about.?????
because the payment is for service contract
Without money, there won't be any new services and improvements.
Also, the Pro and Business versions, are just for those who needs support.
otherwise, the Free version is the same as the paid once.
The most wonderful thing in Piriform, their free versions are ads-free! so you should be happy for that.
I've been using it for about 5 years, so I decided to help out by getting the Pro.
So wither you pay or not, you'll have the same product, but different services.
The Pro version allows you to clean all users, plus it auto updates.
The free version doesn't do those things.
While I use the free version I think it's good that a lot of the pro features aren't necessary ones. For example auto update is a handy feature but free users can simply update manually with ease. 4.0 just released offers browser monitoring to so you can clear your history, caches on close up, free disk space automatically etc. - these are handy but free users can do these easily to manually.
What I mean to say is Piriform could easily be greedy and take actual features e.g. the new file duplicate finder and only include them on the pro version, but they don't which to me is great.
While I use the free version I think it's good that a lot of the pro features aren't necessary ones. For example auto update is a handy feature but free users can simply update manually with ease. 4.0 just released offers browser monitoring to so you can clear your history, caches on close up, free disk space automatically etc. - these are handy but free users can do these easily to manually.
What I mean to say is Piriform could easily be greedy and take actual features e.g. the new file duplicate finder and only include them on the pro version, but they don't which to me is great.
I agree,
but I think the idea of Pro version "NOT BUSINESS" is a helpful way to "DONATE"...
Piriform, won't let people donate without giving them something in return as appreciation. and they are same as others companies, needs a financial help to be improved and continued.
so Pro version is a way to say "Thank you, and keep going."
That's my opinion, and that was why I got my Pro version..