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Nice idea but a bit too utopian to work IMO.

First, most users will never want to pay for a service, especially things like chat, email, social. What I mean by that is, the market is already there for social apps that allow completely free usage by using user data, think Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Second, asking users to pay for a service at about $8/mo is pretty steep. Purism/librem aren't building all the apps themselves.

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You aren't paying for the apps here, you are paying for the online services. $8 per month is not too different from what you would pay for a hosted email these days. IMO, the cost sounds reasonable once you consider that it is a bundle.