iStripper mobile | Official version - Q&A
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November 26, 2022, 221 回复
The adult industry has a lot of ***** business practices, it’s probably a large reason people would rather risk navigating shady sites for free content. Totem was one of the few companies that seemed to have some boundaries and tried to provide a quality service for their customers.
“Always” doesn’t mean forever. I had a few cards from Devine and they are gone now, just empty thumbnails with a name and number. There was a post (found after losing access) where they notified users that her cards would be removed, I don’t check the forums often, nor should I have to for changes such as this. It would have been nice to have a notification in my email informing me that the card would no longer be available. Nikky Case is another model that is no longer available, fortunately I can still download when I want for now, but new accounts can’t purchase her cards. It’s nice that Totem honored the models requests, but for those who already purchased these cards should not lose access to a product they have already purchased.
It doesn’t matter if I read the terms of service or not, I’ve read them before on other software and not agreed to certain sections, but you can’t use the product if you don’t agree to all the terms. I don’t know why anyone would defend this, what if it was a product such as a car? Would you agree that if you went over the speed limit slightly that a company should be able to use a *****-witch on your car, charge you a fine or confiscate it? If you disagreed to any one of these things, then you are unable to purchase the vehicle and are without transportation. If you let one company get away with it, others will see what they can get away with. I can go on and on about terms of service, some sites/services selectively enforce their policies on individuals who don’t break the TOS while others do and they get to continue to use the product. In the end, we don’t “own” anything digital and have little to no rights, just a rental agreement.
The mobile site has been around for quite some time. If my memory serves me correct it was available to all users in 2015 as a “bonus”, desktop cards that were converted to mobile that you purchased would also be available on mobile. I have seen some quotes to an article released in 2020, but mobile has been around far longer than that. In my opinion it is a deceptive and bad business practice to charge people for beta products that you knew you were going to change to a subscription model or would possibly change to a subscription model. The only thing that would take the sting out of such a move for most people, would be giving those who purchased mobile cards the desktop version of the cards, which I believe they already do. I have never made a mobile purchase, because the site was always an inferior product in my opinion. I have been using Linux increasingly over the years and mobile was starting to look better since there was no native Linux desktop client. The only way I would entertain the thought of paying for mobile is if the vast majority or all of the features from the desktop client were available on mobile.
In the end I’m not for or against this model for mobile, I rarely used mobile. There are costs to hosting servers and having constant high resolution streams consuming bandwidth that need to be paid for. They could mitigate some of this by having another model where you only buy what you want and download it to your device, like their desktop model. I will say I am hesitant about putting more money into the desktop version considering how they transitioned mobile and what they did with Devine. I see them testing the waters with the “Premium” subscriptions on the desktop client. How long before the desktop is turned into a subscription based model only and our collections are gone, because monthly subscriptions are more profitable?
