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A paid telegram would be crippled from large part userbase. I would not be able to convince anyone from friends and family to use it if it were paid - they can'
by szszrk 6y ago
A paid telegram would be crippled from large part userbase. I would not be able to convince anyone from friends and family to use it if it were paid - they can't see the value before installing.
Without them I would not pay for it as well.
- chii 6y agoit's quite "easy" to solve that problem - you as the person who wants to convince others to use, would pay up front for the app for them. To the family member, it's free (of course, you do tell them you're paying). But when they find that it's good, they would also pay to recommend it to their friends.
- tw04 6y agoI don't see that as being a hurdle. You make the first year free which, IIRC, is what whatsapp did.
- hobofan 6y agoIt would make it a hurdle for the young userbase. When I started using Whatsapp I was ~16, and didn't have access to a credit card or any other way to pay for a yearly subscription (and I'm not sure if my parents would have okayed it).
- skinnymuch 6y agoWhatsApp made every year free for 90%+ of Android users. Maybe 95%+. It is hard to find people who paid for Android Whatsapp. Even more so paying more than once. So that doesn’t work to make money.
- Aloha 6y agoOr you have value-add services available by subscription