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I agree, and it seems that Pando is spreading the notion on the basis that Squarespace is making money. This paragraph is most important in the article: > In f
by fruchtose 14y ago
I agree, and it seems that Pando is spreading the notion on the basis that Squarespace is making money. This paragraph is most important in the article:
> In fact, the company mostly serves smaller blogs and businesses. It has tens of thousands of users, Casalena said, compared with WordPress’s 73 million and Tumblr’s 51 million. The key is Squarespace’s users are all paying a monthly fee. Squarespace is positioned as an alternative to paying some developer $5000 to make a site.
This paragraph at once defines and antagonizes the thesis of the article. It defines the thesis in that, if Squarespace is making a product worth using, it will spread to areas outside its current target audience. However, at the same time, it would be ludicrous to assume that independent bloggers currently comfortable with WordPress would switch to a non-free product any time soon--we're talking about moving millions of users of a free product to a paid one. How many of these bloggers can afford to move? What are the advantages of moving? The article is disappointing because it does not answer any of these questions while assuming the conclusion.