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what will happen to pocket premium?
by xyos 10y ago
what will happen to pocket premium?
- chrisabrams 10y agoIt will fund Firefox development :P
- dredmorbius 10y agoSource?
- Sylos 10y agoI think, he was mostly joking, but it might actually be the case. Sounds like they want to keep the Pocket company intact as it is, just as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Corporation and with everything open-sourced. So, Pocket as a company should continue to try to make a revenue and if they do, that revenue goes upwards into the Mozilla Corporation (and from there upwards into the Mozilla Foundation, if the non-profit nature allows it). There's also Callahad commenting in this thread, who, as far as I'm aware, is a Mozilla employee. And well, he sort of confirmed that this is a move to diversify Mozilla's income streams: >bearcobra 12 hours ago [-] >Does this mark a strategy shift away from search revenue as the primary funding source? A quick crunchbase search for other aquicisions by Mozilla yeilded nothing, so I'm curious if there are other examples of them buying up for-profits. >>callahad 12 hours ago [-] >>Mozilla is actively working to diversify its sources of funding; the greatest step in that was when we switched from a global default of Google search to smaller, regional deals with Yahoo, Google, Yandex, and Baidu toward the end of 2014.
- dredmorbius 10y agoThere were references elsewhere in the thread to comments by Mozilla staff directly, so it appears this is true.
- m52go 10y agodid anyone buy pocket premium? i always perceived it as a sales page that got no sales.
- hgontijo 10y agoI did. Mostly because I like/use the tool and I wanted to support their work.
- pspeter3 10y agoI did for the same reasons and also in the hope of having advanced search.
- rebeccaskinner 10y agoI got a year of it through the humble productivity bundle (or something similar) a couple of years ago. It's one of the few things in the bundle that I continued to subscribe to (along with lastpass) after the bundle ran out. It's cheap, and I enjoy the service. I don't really use the premium features so much that their absolutely indispensable, but they are nice. I keep a huge library of stuff in pocket and the unlimited storage space and easier searching is nicer than having to re-google for things.
- r3bl 10y agoI never saw any value to buying a premium. Their free features did the trick, and the only reason I may even consider purchasing a premium for are the ads, which will probably disappear after Mozilla takes it over.
- krschultz 10y agoI did. I'm not sure if there is any features of value, but I pay for all the small apps I use so that the developers don't go out of business.