Comments on: Google got us hooked on Crack Codecaine and now it’s gonna make us pay

By: glowcare

glowcare — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:41:00 +0000

We pay £120 or so every four weeks for that big bad broadcaster’s services, who’s name rhymes with “die”, for, the various HD boxes and stuff around our place. Not to mention the poxy 3D thing upstairs, that nobody ever watches. So I’m not surprised, in the least, that “our Google”, is going to move in that inevitable, upward direction (profit). Its just the way that “business” is, and for that matter, the way the rest of the world is and has pretty much always been.

Anyway, if i think about it for a moment; I get so much fun and pleasure out of tapping away on that keyboard, on my own, contented, transfixed (probably producing crap). Good value I would say, compared with some of the other, expensive, time stealing mediums and formats that most of us indulge in a little too much.

By: Koozai Mike

Koozai Mike — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:32:00 +0000

Exactly! We already pay via a “tax on users” (which is how Google’s head of product development refers to it in this month’s Wired) such as remarketing, PPC ads and Gmail targetted content.

By: Roy Wilding

Roy Wilding — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:14:00 +0000

Thanks Mike.

That’s my big concern too. I’ve been

By: Koozai Mike

Koozai Mike — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:51:00 +0000

That’s the best headline I’ve read in ages (and certainly true to a degree).

I would love a Blogger paid version (as blogger is pretty rubbish 99% of the time) but agree that founding a company on freemium and then upping the cost is outrageous. The problem is it works. Spotify added usage restrictions on their free content and lost a load of non paying customers but gained way more paying customers, which ultimately were far more valuable than the ad watching ‘free’ customers.

Then there’s paywalls that have shown a degree of success and it’s starting to make me worry that the free version of the Internet is rapidly being torn down. Not good!