WITH OUT GETTING INTO A HUGE DEBATE ABOUT 'NET NEUTRALITY' - WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON 'Freemium' Over the past decade “freemium”—a combination of “free” and “premium”—has become the dominant business model among internet start-ups and smartphone app developers. Users get basic features at no cost and can access richer functionality for a subscription fee. http://hbr.org/2014/05/making-freemium-work/ar/1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfsyDQ3a3VU"]Husker Du - I Don't Know What You're Talking About - YouTube
I sometimes glimpse an eyeful of the world-wide media madness circus when I check my yahoo email,but it's fucking insane bullshit.
A random selection of what is going on in the world is not only depressing but confusing. It is expected that you should not only know the totality of events, but have an opinion, too. Not possible. This is only about having a tiered business model, though. The 'net neutrality' comes into play when it might be the case that there is a tiered internet for some countries. Fast lane. Slow lane. We already have a tiered Internet. Is it a good or bad thing companies can withhold certain features of their services? Especially those that promote freedom. Free being the key part of the equation.
I don't like it. I would prefer to pay for the software. Now true freemium is fine, if it's free and there are expanded features for a paid model. But generally the price behind freemium is selling your personal info to dozens of analytic companies who buy and sell your information, and collect it in aggregate, secretly about millions of people. While their awful spyware is slowing down phones. But that's reality.
