Wait this isn’t standard practice in the rest of the world???¿???

Thanks for the context but

I feel like price for the one time purchase is set deliberately high because they want people to actually pay for the subscription instead. If their goal really was to make their products more accessible, just allow people to pay in installments and take some recurring interest fees for the financing.

And, in any case, the product should work no matter whether I’m late with the monthly fee or not. That’s just bullshit.