• zerozaku@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    The companies that enshittify their service never actually care about their premium service. They provide a service which is good enough for free users and a pro version for power users. Later once they amass a critical userbase, they slowly make their free service shitty and ask users to pay to get their good-enough service back. Free users were their focus all along and these premium users are there just to pay some of their costs.

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      6 hours ago

      Yes, that works when providing the service is cheap to scale. Like social media, search etc

      AI is not cheap to scale and is not as disruptive or groundbreaking.