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> I think AT&T and telephone business are a bad analogy, exactly because Google kind of is involved in the telephone business and does not apply these stratagem
by saurik 5y ago
> I think AT&T and telephone business are a bad analogy, exactly because Google kind of is involved in the telephone business and does not apply these stratagems there.
Users didn't come to expect it, and contrary to the Silicon Valley playbook, it turns out that you actually can charge nearly 100% of people and they will pay you: you don't have to give it away for free to have penetration. To me this is more of a hypothetical on "what if a company like Google (specifically the Google of now) invented phones instead of AT&T?".
- Jensson 5y agoYou can charge for a killer feature everyone wants when you have no competitors who can offer it for free. And you might have noticed that even today nobody uses services which puts ads into private communications. People are willing to pay the tiny amount required to skip those ads. And from cable TV we know that every service where people can tolerate ads will contains ads sooner or later even when people pay money for it.