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I'm confused. Is #1 supposed to be a rebuttal? Or was your point to reiterate why ads are beneficial to "free users in Africa".
by ianstormtaylor 14y ago
I'm confused. Is #1 supposed to be a rebuttal? Or was your point to reiterate why ads are beneficial to "free users in Africa".
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoI'll chime in. If we want to provide GMail free to people in Africa, then we just do it. Govt subsidize it or something. Quit shoe-horning philanthropic efforts into somebody's business model.
- potatolicious 14y agoIf philanthropy is an emergent property of a business model, I'd count my blessings and keep it.
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoThe point of the article was that it Wasn't, in fact it was a drag on the business model.
- mdonahoe 14y agoThere could a freemium approach as well. The paying users get a better experience (more storage space, faster delivery, faster search), and the free users get the basic package. Seems to work for Dropbox and they dont show me ads, except ads for Dropbox itself.