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What is interesting to see is that first there were paid apps photo/gallery/editors. Then Google broke the market with free apps to do that. Then it was an in
by greatgib 6y ago
What is interesting to see is that first there were paid apps photo/gallery/editors.
Then Google broke the market with free apps to do that.
Then it was an incentive to force you using a phone of a manufacturer that paid the Google Play framework racket fees. (The user is thinking that they are free apps compared to competitors but in fact it is the manufacturer that pay for them)
And now that the competitors are rares, paid features and paywall are coming...
Just imagine if at the beginning it was the competitors apps vs paywalled Google apps as they are becoming!
- greatgib 6y agoIn the same way as when people joined massively Gmail, it was because google was marketing it as 'unlimited storage' ('you will never have to delete an email anymore). And now that they are ubiquitous, the storage is clearly fixed and limited and there are incentives to push you to pay for more storage. In a same way that drive or photos services were kind of: it's unlimited, no cost, use them for everything! But every photo that you did put in your drive for example, reduce the storage you have available for receiving emails. So at some points you will have to pay for the extra storage...
- srtjstjsj 6y agoPaid editors never stopped existing.
- greatgib 6y agoIt's not that they were killed. It is just that they could survive but not thrive facing a powerfully marketed free and preinstalled google photo gallery. Think of it in the same way that AMD survived with difficulty for a dozen years when Intel used anti competitive mesures against them. Ensuring distributors would not let too much AMD powered computer be sold