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And there’s another interesting argument I hear from time to time: people tell me they use Google for free, or for much less, and it gives them way more. Maybe
by evermike 1y ago
And there’s another interesting argument I hear from time to time: people tell me they use Google for free, or for much less, and it gives them way more.
Maybe the big companies are partly to blame for shaping the kind of mindset users have today?
- thunderbong 1y agoAbsolutely. If I remember correctly, until Google came in and started giving everything away for free, there was literally nothing available for free. Even email was capped to 2 MB with everything beyond as chargeable. Originally, Google have away their workspace suite for free, which now people have to pay for. The free tier everywhere has now become the ad-riddled tier.
- Yizahi 1y agoPricing problem really interests me lately, like where do we draw line? In cloud you may get access to essentially unlimited consumer storage, plus a lot of different paid services all for like 15$/month. Or you may purchase only one service from that pack for more. You may subscribe to some news aggregator for 10$ or to a single private blog for 20$. You may subscribe to a AAA modern 3D game for 15$, or buy a fraction of a fraction of a single character kit in a less advanced and worse looking gacha for the same 15$. You may buy a Netflix sub with years of content for 15$, or a single new movie one time 48h "permission" for about the same. My point is, humans are unable and unwilling to operate prices less than 1, so everything is priced close to that number, even something incomparable in complexity and features. How do we even solve this?