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Popularity of a messenger hinges on it being free, and viability of ad-driven business model hinges on popularity. Meanwhile, ad-driven model is a much more co
by strogonoff 5y ago
Popularity of a messenger hinges on it being free, and viability of ad-driven business model hinges on popularity.
Meanwhile, ad-driven model is a much more comfortable and reliable source of profit (since you are popular and free, users won’t leave, so no need to work hard fighting for customers).
Imagine if instead of three whales we had a variety of paid messengers, all forced to interoperate with each other and offer APIs for third-party client software because that’s what paying users requested.
- alpejf 5y agoI dont care how many customers the whales can support or whether they interoperate. I'll happily pay to support not just my client but who ever wants to connect to me. This is not some big yearly cost given how cheap hardware and bandwith have become.
- strogonoff 5y agoIf your service doesn’t interoperate with others, no one will connect to you unless everyone is already using the same service.