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Oh shut up already. We are, because people like us don't want to pay 99¢-$1.50 for songs that took time to compose, play, record, master, ship, and market, app
by andrewmcwatters 11y ago
Oh shut up already.
We are, because people like us don't want to pay 99¢-$1.50 for songs that took time to compose, play, record, master, ship, and market, apps for mobile devices are quite literally a dime a dozen in app packs, games are at their lowest prices ever and the only sustainable model is DLC and subscriptions, and hundreds of petabytes of video storage are hosted by YouTube for no charge.
It's 2015, grow up. Innovators need to make money. Maybe you'll understand one day when you make something people want.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoMaybe we have too much expectation that you can make money directly doing creative works? People talk about entitlement of users, but this should work both way - when building a small app you shouldn't feel entitled to make a lot of money off it. That people may not want to buy your offerings at the price you want them to buy is the basic feature of a free market. On the other hand, I believe we need to have a serious conversation about business models. Things like spamming with ads, massive tracking and micropayments should not be encouraged. Ponzi schemes are profitable too, and so is slave labour, and there are various forms of these and other business models that are legal but still shunned by the society. And just like those, chunking up your games into million paid DLCs, abusing gullible parents or turning the entire Internet into an ad cesspoool should not be things a self-respecting, moral person would consider doing.