[gwerbin]

It's a ploy to drive adoption. Once it's considered essential they can turn the screws in massive contracts with governments, big enterprises, universities, and public school systems. Probably some genuine competition on price, but the equilibrium price is probably below cost and not sustainable.

[loloquwowndueo]

First step of enshittification :)

[fragmede]

Which definition of that are you using?

[loloquwowndueo]

Huh?

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

This is at the “good to their users” phase - giving free access to an otherwise non-free product is being good to them, right?