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I remember Brad giving the keynote at RubyConf 2004. At that time he was pretty excited about micropayments, so after a short blurb on ObjC he mostly talked ab

I remember Brad giving the keynote at RubyConf 2004. At that time he was pretty excited about micropayments, so after a short blurb on ObjC he mostly talked about that. I don't think micropayments ever really worked out, but he was obviously putting a lot of energy into figuring out how it could be done and it was interesting to hear him hold forth.

rasz_pl 12y ago
>I don't think micropayments ever really worked out becaue no one ever implements MICROpayments, we always end up with macropayments. Have you seen a program or a game that asks you for 0.5 cents for a hat? or 0.001cents for a bullet? The closest I could find is world of tanks, where you can buy bullets for 0.006 Euro for the smallest tanks, and 0.06 Euro for the most expensive ones. Hats (camo patterns, inscriptions) still cost ~ 1 euro each tho. Most games simply milk you $5 and up per "micro"payment.