Those free users are the product. Just because you’re not paying money doesn’t mean there’s not value. “Are they simply punishing success” You could have said

Those free users are the product. Just because you’re not paying money doesn’t mean there’s not value. “Are they simply punishing success” You could have said the same about Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel. The problem is when these companies get to a size and market position that enables extremely anticompetitive behavior like what we’re seeing with app stores and all the purchasing of other successful companies/engineers in the space.