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Re:Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhone... by nradov on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:01PM (#11537727)
ISPs probably wouldn't get enough customer adoption of such a service to make it worth their while. Someone needs to resurrect micropayments and figure out a way to make them work. There are a lot of people who don't necessarily want to subscribe to a news site but would be willing to pay a few pennies to read individual articles.
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Re:Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhone... by LeifCarrotson on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:41PM (#11537960)
"Resurrect"? I don't recall any time period in which micropayments were successful.
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Re:Almost Nothing About the ‘Apple Harvests Gold from iPhone... by Intermernet on Thursday April 21, 2016 @08:49AM (#11541650)
Not in the west, but they're very successful in developing nations. Africa being the primary example.
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