Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High
by fjsolwmv on Sunday April 15, 2018 @08:06PM
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There's the Amazon Prime / Apple iCloud whatever model: you pay a single monthly fee and you get access to a wide range of services. Amazon even has their Appstore whatsitcalled library where 3rd party apps are no-added-cost and they pay the app publishers on some kind of spotify like pay-per-use model.
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Its a very slight variation on the middleman problem that doesn't really fix much, you just get a slightly different financial model for a creepy invasive middleman not much different than social media and advertisers.