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The one who dropped the ball is CNet. They could have used their good name to establish a curated software marketplace and done subscription, app sales, freemiu

The one who dropped the ball is CNet. They could have used their good name to establish a curated software marketplace and done subscription, app sales, freemium... anything at all other than giving their reputation a giant flush for a few bucks and earning themselves a 127.0.0.1 in the hosts file of computers I work on.

jenscow 12y ago
Back in the day, I probably would have made use of that - instead they made developers bid to have their products higher in the listings.
nroets 12y ago
No, if CNet had the vision to establish a marketplace, they would have fallen victim to "Embrace, extend and extinguish".