[adminu]

Aren't there examples against this nowadays? E-Scooters are payed by the minute, even though not provided by monopolists. Mobile games with in-app purchases are very similar to micro-payments, too and power a whole industry.

The monopolist examples, like mobile and power companies don't translate well, as these companies provide services, that are continuously consumed, vs. one of purchases. For these companies, micro payments maybe don't make sense. But for lot's of other one of content, micro payments seem far superior over subscriptions.

To me, it feels, the article proves, that micropayments are crap if used for the wrong kind of products...

[ip26]

By the reasoning of the article, we would probably say that e-scooters are a new market, and will trend towards subscriptions as the market matures and simplifies.