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The problem is not that nobody wants to pay, but that in the digital economy, content and many software products are relatively easy to copy. And once you got t
by petra 11y ago
The problem is not that nobody wants to pay, but that in the digital economy, content and many software products are relatively easy to copy. And once you got that, you know that the cheapest guy will win and take most of your customers, so why not be the cheapest guy, especially if it pays very well ?
The other option is to make your product hard to copy by network effects or data collection, but again, here it's natural for the cheapest guy to win.
- educar 11y agoI don't think it's easy to copy. I can understand that the search market is ad driven. But they have put ads in everything now. Why does gmail have ads? It's not easily copyable and people will take years to build a decent gmail competitor. And good products that didn't have ads like google reader get shutdown :/