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Seems pretty reasonable to me? Especially in the context of tossing ideas around. Note that I don't read this as "let's get devs on board and then yank the rug

Seems pretty reasonable to me? Especially in the context of tossing ideas around. Note that I don't read this as "let's get devs on board and then yank the rug out from under them later". Rather, it seems like they're trying to find a way to make it win/win, where devs can either pay for the platform directly, or use it for free if they can do so with a business model that helps Facebook make money elsewhere.

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PavlovsCat 8y ago
> devs can generate revenue for us in different ways, then it makes it more acceptable for us to charge them quite a bit more Generate revenue for us, so we can charge them quite a bit more. > The basic idea is that any other revenue you generate for us earns you a credit towards whatever fees you own us for using plaform. For most developers this would probably cover cost completely. So devs can get credit (they can't convert to money I guess?), and Facebook gets more money. That's just win/win if you don't consider the audience FB "generates revenue" from, and then it also would depend on how much you would care to save, say $10 while generating $50 for FB, or saving $10 to generate $500, and what those figures would be. Money isn't "made", it's always shifted around. Value can be generated, not money. So making money for Facebook means taking it from somewhere.