• 4grams
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    279 months ago

    IMHO the problem is the same one as everywhere. Companies are no longer interested in creating products, they are only interested in creating revenue streams. I’ve been working on my finances lately and it’s incredible how many ‘products’ have become subscriptions over time.

    I’d love to be able to buy a day’s access, or access to an article. If I want to share it, I’m willing to pay a small fee to show it to certain folks. I feel like there could be a market there but in the current financial climate it would never get any interest or backing because it wouldn’t be a method to capture people into a reoccurring billing cycle.

    • TheMonkeyLord
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      69 months ago

      Something I think is interesting is that, in order for companies to adopt these better non ad reliant models, they would have to dramatically scale down.

      In a climate where ad and clicks = revenue, your solution is to scale as large as you can and pump out content to maximize views. But that wouldn’t work under normal models

      • 4grams
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        89 months ago

        if I ran the world, these tech companies would get the ma bell treatment, heck the current phone companies need a round 2.