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It never works like that in practice. It is cheaper and easier to deal with one customer paying $10,000 than 1000 customers paying $10. In any case, Reddit has
by rchaud 3y ago
It never works like that in practice. It is cheaper and easier to deal with one customer paying $10,000 than 1000 customers paying $10.
In any case, Reddit has no interest in pivoting their business model away from ads to paid subscriptions. This is a dog and pony show they're holding prior to "making the difficult decision" to eliminate 3rd party competitors.
- ttepasse 3y agoReddit already has an infrastructure dealing with 1000s of customers paying small amounts. It seems absurd to outsource part of that to very small 3rd party businesses, especially since that then would be two routes where payment processors and presumably mobile app store vendors get additional cuts from the money streams.