I reckon if I was 20 and received this offer, I'd jump on it because that would represent an enormous value. But, at age 62, a lifetime update offer represents significantly fewer years than if I was 20. The other side of the coin is when I was 20, I would never have been able to afford it! I don't have any plans to shuffle off this mortal coil just yet and am still playing professionally. But, I just wonder what everyone else's take is on the value of the offer vs the age of the user. 

Now you know why Cake asked if you were a smoker when you registered your product.

I understand that Cake has a 10 person actuarial
team working diligently to determine all of our life expectancies.





Just kidding, of course.

Well, no matter what statistics you use, unless you're from Afghanistan or somewhere in West or Central Africa, you should get more than you're money's worth. Of course no matter where you're from, women will get a better deal than men. If I decide to purchase, I'm definitely cutting out the salt taking up lap swimming again. I'm actually more concerned about whether my audio interface will still have compatible drivers when I have a quantum micro-chip implanted directly in my frontal cortex.

if its any help I'm now 63 and still going strong and although 12 hour 4 day recording sessions do take their toll I have gone for life-time upgrade. Mind you what a way to go out that would really be rock & roll.

Well normally lifetime doesn't mean YOUR lifetimes but rather the life of the product. So as long as the product continues to be sold/supported, you get what is promised. Like this is real common on enterprise switches, they come with lifetime warranties. So as long as the switch is on sale, you can get a new one if it breaks. Once it goes off sale there's an EOL period of a couple years when you can still get support, then it is done, and if it breaks after that, you can't get a replacement. Usually works out to be 10-15 years in practice for these particular things.
 
Same deal with Sonar Platinum. As long as Cakewalk keeps making it, you get updates. However if they discontinue it, then it is done because the lifetime of the product is over. How long will that be with Platinum? Nobody knows, including Cakewalk I imagine. Generally with "lifetime support" type products it is done in part because the maker doesn't know when they will discontinue it, they have no specific date planned. They'll keep it current until it no longer makes sense to.
 
However, based on the age that people in affluent countries make it to and the general changing nature of technology, I'd guess your lifetime will exceed Platinum's lifetime. It would not surprise me if in 10-15 years things have changed significantly enough that Sonar morphs in to or is replaced by a new product and Platinum's life (and thus updates) end. However statistically speaking you should still be with us, and hopefully you will be :)
 
Either way it should be worth while. So long as its life and your life exceed 2 years, both extremely likely, it is cheaper than paying yearly maintenance.

I guess if you were 20 you could get hit by lightning, cooking you and your gear. Bad deal all the way around.
Sounds to me like the lifetime update for you has already paid off.

Just a reminder; Women that carry extra weight live way longer than men that have anything to say about it.
 
Rocky

bluzdog
Just a reminder; Women that carry extra weight live way longer than men that have anything to say about it.
 
Rocky

You are a wise man...
 

Don't ask me, I don't know! - Hebrews 9:27
 
Or:
 
There should be a senior discount.

A while ago, I was upgrading Sonar every other version (mostly) which meant every two years or so. Sonar 3, then 5, 7, X1, X2). I figure if "lifetime updates" gives me the latest version every month for 4 or 5 years, it's a good deal. The way it looks, it'll go longer than that since there are no version numbers anymore, and Sonar will be Sonar for quite some time.