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I'm the opposite. I'm sick of subscription service fees, and would much rather pay per view/listen/read. I'm also annoyed I can't get a cell plan in my country
by perilunar 4y ago
I'm the opposite. I'm sick of subscription service fees, and would much rather pay per view/listen/read.
I'm also annoyed I can't get a cell plan in my country that just charges me a flat rate per GB of data I use. Instead I pay a flat monthly fee that includes "free" call minutes and messages that I never use.
In both cases I'm sure I'm overpaying and cross-subsidising people who consume a lot.
- lizknope 4y agoI'd like to support news sites behind paywalls by reading a single article for $0.25 but I'm not willing to pay $10 a month for a subscription if I just want to read a random article every once in a while.
- nottorp 4y agoThere are two different use cases and we need support for both. Personally I prefer flat rate for unlimited everything if we're talking cell phone. It's not like I'll cancel it from month to month. But for $random_site that is linked to from HN... no way I'll pay for a subscription. But I wouldn't pay 0.25 either for one article. Give up on the whale pricing and charge 1 cent. This use case also needs a frictionless way of paying. No way I'm making an account for each site.
- blep_ 4y agoI'm even more opposite than you on internet data usage. It is wonderful to never have to think about how much I'm using. It's just not a thing that ever crosses my mind. If I click on a link to a 10MB monstrosity of a page and most of it gets through my adblocker, all I've lost is time. I also use my unlimited minutes to answer all spam calls and immediately turn my microphone off, just in case they pay by usage, but that is somewhat less critical :) I can totally see the other side of it, though. My brain is just structured such that the money-to-mental-effort tradeoffs don't work out for me.