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The reason why consumers are unwilling to pay for service is because VCs have funded companies ability to give away tremendous value to achieve fast growth. Bec
by josho 7y ago
The reason why consumers are unwilling to pay for service is because VCs have funded companies ability to give away tremendous value to achieve fast growth. Because of this consumers now have an expectation for free.
Previously when software was sold at retail, consumers had no qualms paying for software.
So maybe you are right and the root problem are the business models and specifically the funding behind those models.
- vageli 7y ago> The reason why consumers are unwilling to pay for service is because VCs have funded companies ability to give away tremendous value to achieve fast growth. Because of this consumers now have an expectation for free. > Previously when software was sold at retail, consumers had no qualms paying for software. When was this? I recall the warez, cracking and keygen scenes being huge years ago (before the rise of SaaS).
- meesles 7y agoThat misses the point. Theft and hacking are still prevalent, that hasn't changed. What's changed is that people expect software like Facebook, Twitter, or Gmail for free. Decades ago the average consumer walked into a Fry's or Microcenter and bought their copy of Windows.
- anonymousab 7y agoIn this case 'people' does not mean 'every single person' but rather 'a significantly large enough amount of people as to represent a valid business model in many cases'.
- dageshi 7y agoNo.. the early internet was pretty much all free to read, the only thing that's ever really been able to charge is porn. For everything else if it looks like a website, acts like a website then people expect it to be free. Try to charge and people will move on.