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What's wrong with bundling or discounting? There's two ways to make money: bundling and unbundling. Zoom and slack unbundled video chat from places like Google
by bko 3y ago
What's wrong with bundling or discounting?
There's two ways to make money: bundling and unbundling. Zoom and slack unbundled video chat from places like Google workspace and similar software suites. A company like clickup tries to bundle all that stuff as a one stop shop (tagline is one app to replace them all)
If anything more offers would increase competitiom as it's a bigger vector to make a sale.
- xav0989 3y agoAnother hypothetical: your isp zero rates the news sites with a given political leaning, but not yours. Reading the news that they want you to costs nothing, whereas reading the news that you want, or getting an alternative perspective on a story costs you something.
- throw10920 3y ago> There's two ways to make money: bundling and unbundling This is pretty obviously wrong - you can sell things to make money, in a way that requires neither. Now, the problem with bundling itself is that it introduces market distortions. The way that free markets work is that producers make things, and then buyers buy the best thing based on its price and other factors. Bundling impedes this process because it means that consumers no longer buy the best goods based on their individual price and merits. Plus, bundling is usually used by monopolistic companies to anti-competitively extend their influence from one market to another, in a way that doesn't allow the market to work.