Re:Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows u...
by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday October 05, 2023 @05:40PM
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> You cannot have both a gigantic user base and a paid product.
That really depends on how we define "gigantic user base", but I think Adobe, Valve, and Autodesk all disprove it.
> If you charge for your product you will always have people who do not value your product at the price you need to charge.
It doesn't matter how many non-customers you get, only how many customers you get.
In general, I think you do have something of a point in that it is easier to get more users with a nominal price of $0, and it might be a way to get enough users that the small $/user from ads works out. That doesn't mean that ads are always going to work or that other models can't work, though.
That really depends on how we define "gigantic user base", but I think Adobe, Valve, and Autodesk all disprove it.
> If you charge for your product you will always have people who do not value your product at the price you need to charge.
It doesn't matter how many non-customers you get, only how many customers you get.
In general, I think you do have something of a point in that it is easier to get more users with a nominal price of $0, and it might be a way to get enough users that the small $/user from ads works out. That doesn't mean that ads are always going to work or that other models can't work, though.