&#62; <i>If that is worth a tax of 8-9$/month will vary between users.</i><p>And between teenagers who may or may not have access to dad's credit card, or between countries who may or may not have access to that program ;)<p>This also means that a user won't be able to install some software with a single click ... he'll have to first go through the registration process, with a valid credit-card, and some time on his hands.<p>I really don't know why people try to downplay this. If this model gets popular (and it already is to some extent because of the iPhone) ... devs and many regular users simply get proper fucked.