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> Separately, worth mentioning, is the fact that the idea of introducing purposeful limitations deliberately to get people to pay more is also evil (I can play
by wutbrodo 7y ago
> Separately, worth mentioning, is the fact that the idea of introducing purposeful limitations deliberately to get people to pay more is also evil (I can play YouTube on my desktop and switch tabs, and on iOS for ex. it stops playback so you can buy YouTube Red).
This is a fascinating claim to me. Selling access to a service is presumably okay, but having a limited-features version available for free use is "evil"?
- shakna 7y agoIt isn't the access to the service that is evil. Rather, that you get a lesser service on a different platform unless you pay. Consumers expect the same experience regardless of platform. When that experience is free on some platforms but paid on another, it frustrates.
- rusk 7y agoability to use on different platforms = a feature
- TeMPOraL 7y agoFeature or bug, that's ultimately up for the market to decide.
- rusk 7y agoPretty sure the market has adjudicated on YouTube at this stage LOL
- chownie 7y agoIt's weird to me to call this a feature, a few years ago it was a given. YouTube had to go out of their way to break playback on mobile to offer this "feature". I consider it a bug they've added purposefully and they request each user pay for.
- rusk 7y agoIt demands that engineeting resources are set aside and costed i each case. Both for implemtation and maintenance. It is definitely a feature whether youd been getting it for free up to now or not