Upgrade perpetual required with Mac OSX-upgrade?
I am a modest hobby-user of Capture One and I am quite satisfied with all current features and functionality.
The main reason I keep buying upgrades is that after a Mac OSX-upgrade (such as from OSX-11 to -12) it was required to upgrade Capture One as well.
How will that go in the future?
Upgrading OSX is a must-do for me; will that require I als need to buy a yearly Capture One upgrade when I hav a 'perpetual' licence?
I am still on OSX-12 Montery and have not yet upgraded to OSX-13 because I haven't figured whether to buy a perpetual Capture One 23 licence or go for subscription.
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It's not "required" to upgrade C1 when you upgrade macOS, nor is it "required" that you buy the annual upgrades (the upgrade discount decreases if you skip versions, though). The only "must" reasons I can think of is if the new version of macOS breaks the version of C1 you're using or if you buy a camera that requires the new version for support (unless you want to convert to DNG). MacOS has broken older versions of C1 (and other apps, btw) more than once.
IMO, subscription will eventually force you to upgrade macOS in order to use the then-current version of C1 (they're currently supporting about 3 older versions of macOS). Eventually, that could well cause you to buy a new Mac (because macOS supports older machines for so many years). The alternative with subscriptions is to keep paying and stay on the version of macOS that works for you.
My personal decision is to stay with perpetual licenses, make my own decision about when/if to upgrade to a new OS version (which itself may break other apps or devices I rely on) and make decisions about Capture One versions based on what they offer me. For example, I passed on v23 because its new features don't interest me, and moving to v23 forces both OS upgrade AND new Macs, because most of my machines won't run the versions of macOS supported by v23. So you see, for me, v23 is a very expensive upgrade (2 new Macs + a comparatively minimal C1 upgrade cost + hoping that Ventura doesn't break any of my critical apps). I'm definitely buying new machines later this year, and when I do I'll probably upgrade to whatever version of C1 is current at the time—and then I'll be back to watching what new C1 versions offer.
As you can see, and what I think most people don't consider, always running the current version of any app may have unexpected consequences arising from its OS support. I think Windows upgrades have historically broken less than macOS upgrades have, but the OS consequences shouldn't be ignored, imo.
For you, I'd suggest carefully thinking about your entire ecosystem and not just C1 versions. Even if you go with a subscription, you might want to wait to upgrade to the latest version until it's been out for a couple of weeks because, as with OS updates, some C1 updates have broken things and it takes C1 a little while to fix the problem.
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Thank you; quite helpful. I will stay with perpetual licences. Next week I'll upgrade my Macs to OSX Ventura; I guess v21 will then break. In that case I'll upgrade to v23. I hope I can stay at least 2 years with v23.
Besides that I have always bought all software I use, I hate subscriptions. Avoiding subscriptions is getting more difficult. I have ditched quite a few applications that switched to subscriptions and switched to alternatives without. However I like C1 too much to ditch.
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