Oh, just a billion? Why not 100 billion while we're at it?

Because there's only 6-7Bn people in the planet?

Come on, man.

You are not thinking intergallactially.

With 3.6B people in the workforce I'd argue there isn't a billion people in need of a computer, not to mention an ai subscription plan. I'm of course assuming most subscriptions for ai are work related.

I use free AI tools and will never pay for it. There are many people like this.

Additionally, I pay for Anthropic's products and will not consider OpenAI offerings. There are many people like this.

Indeed, there is a massive gap between free and $1/month. Personally I outright refuse to buy anything digital involving monthly payments (except where there is no alternative like domain names, etc.)

I pay more for a faster PC and a bigger screen.

I also pay for better AI. My - and probably your time - and the time saved by using superior tooling, is worth far more than the meagre few dollars spent each month on some subscription.

You're stepping over dollars to pick up dimes.

AI tooling that costs money does not provide anything better than the freely available tools. If you built some product upon it, I'm sorry but your product is not worth a dime.