It's true that "in principal" Imperihome feels to be ripping-your-head-off now, but guezz, to imply that your family would go hungry is a bit exaggerated! 
Sorry no, I wasn't saying $5 a month will kill anything... what I am saying is that every single thing in life wants to now charge us $5-$50 a month - even my darn doorbell, even things I DO subscribe to are now being split into many other products that you now need to individually subscribe to.
Yes yes yes, only $5 for ImperiHome. Yes yes yes only $5 for my doorbell. Yes yes yes only $5 for every different product. Yes yes yes only $50 for the sport I used to follow on free-to-air TV now exclusively on PayTV. Yes yes yes only $x for this, $x for that. Every software product, even Photoshop, wants a subscription. Every product wants a subscription - even the door lock on my holiday home has a darned monthly subscription, that's why I'm replacing it with a Z-Wave one now. Music, movies, everything. Add it all together... it's hundreds upon hundreds of dollars per month.
One thing, easy. But everything wants to be subscription now. Add it up and it's not viable.
Realistically priced though, sure. So if ImperiHome and other products were say 50c-80c a month sure, if you do the math that works out to re-buying the product every year... okay not fantastic but probably fair to ensure continued development. But being charged the full purchase price every month or two... add everything together, not just one product on its own, and I can't see how anyone can afford that.
Netflix is a great example - in a few years time you'll have your Netflix subscription for their own developed content, but you already need Stargate Command subscription with MGM for the content that was removed from there, you will soon need Disney Star Wars subscription for the Star Wars content in process of being removed, Disney subscription for all the rest of their content, MGM subscription, All Access subscription, everyone else who wants to charge for their own. Each of these are $5-$20, each. So now instead of $10 for Netflix (which has gone up to nearly $20) you're talking over a hundred bucks a month JUST for that content, not even counting anything else.
So it's not $5, which in itself is nuts, it's the overall concept that everything in life wants to charge subscriptions. Not to mention that everything we already pay for annually (at least in Australia) such as private health is going through the absolute roof.
Yeah I'm going completely off topic, just very frustrated where things are headed LOL
