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Ask HN: Pay For Privacy...Really?

If you're a free user of prezi all your presentations are public, and in order to make them private you have to subscribe and pay. That seems like a pretty genius business model that I'm sure has been used before. But is it a feature that successfully drives people to pay? Does it open too big of feature gap that competitors can differentiate against?Facebook's privacy is a mess as it is, and...

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Re:Working computer made out of Minecraft blocks on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @11:31AM (#1739759)
Art is also pointless in most cases, but--and I'm sure some will disagree with this--there's a value in the process and in what is produced. Whether it be real or virtual. I think this holds true for the logic circuit guy too.

Also, there's no way to know if someone who posts something online "need's help" so that seems liks a pointless debate to me.

This is a really interesting poll...and I'd love to see hard real numbers of total android and iphone users and the percentage of users that buy apps, since a poll like this might be difficult to get accurate results, as people who have never purchased apps might not respond