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Re:Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal by nicce on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @05:03PM (#30925006)
Usually the practice in these scenarios is to try out all possible ways to make out money and then go a little backwards once the public outcry is big enough. At some point you find the most profitable balance situation, before you have expelled all customers.
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Re:Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal by encryptluks2 on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:09PM (#30925712)
There is a plethora of free GPU-accelerated terminals. Alacritty, kitty, foot, wezterm, etc. None of these as far as I know send telemetry data. I see no reason to think that a new terminal is going to make money somehow by finding a balance.
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Re:Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal by nicce on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:09PM (#30926328)
My comparison was about business models of these "evil" cases in general, not about terminals particularly. On general, free apps tends to need find a balance how much users can tolerate their "exploitation" and how much they get from the app, if the app maker wants to make some money.

I don't personally see any reason to swap terminal with telemetry. One of my worst fears that some day I am forced to.

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