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Think about how browsers could be improved if people were willing to pay $5 for them. Perhaps it's time to attempt to "pay" for such software via cooperative e
by _3u10 11y ago
Think about how browsers could be improved if people were willing to pay $5 for them.
Perhaps it's time to attempt to "pay" for such software via cooperative effort, eg. by the publisher setting a price for it, and then people paying $5.
Why people will pay $5 for coffee they could make at home for 'free' but not for software is beyond me.
- voltagex_ 11y agoA lot of the time people don't understand how expensive software is to develop.
- overcast 11y agoIt's a tangible thing. People STILL have issues paying for something that isn't physically in their hands.
- dilap 11y agoNah, I don't think it's that -- people spend crazy amounts of $ for non-tangible assets in F2P games.
- ferbivore 11y agoI don't think you're talking about the same subset of people here.
- dilap 11y agowhat, people who use browsers and play games? there's got to be a pretty big overlap :) (though it's true that a large fraction of the people that play f2p games don't pay at all.) i know for me personally, one reason i've been reluctant to pay for software is just that they paying-for-software experience has been so terrible -- you have to clumsily reenter your payment information, you get emailed, sometimes slowly, a registration code, which you inevitably lose and breaks your software when you have to reinstall on a new computer, etc.
- fleitz 11y agoI have no idea what it is, I catch myself doing it too. I ask myself why am I not just paying for this instead of building it / doing with out? Whenever I think rationally I almost always opt to buy software vs make it myself.
- lazyjones 11y agoFor browsers, there is enough financial incentive for vendors: * Google builds a browser to control the market and make sure ads and their own websites are working well * Apple builds a browser to make sure web browsing on their devices is working well, uses little power and is not adversely affected by the competition * Mozilla is swimming in money obviously after all the previous Google payments So, money is not the issue with browsers - except that we could probably have a browser with built-in privacy (no tracking) and reliable ad blocking if users paid for it instead of large commercial entities. But that's very hypothetical (Google would buy that probably).