[freehunter]

I always hear talk about "if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer". App.net was designed to solve that: you pay for it, so there's no ads, no privacy intrusions, and no worries about who is selling you to whom.

I guess the experiment failed, and free-to-play wins out.

[jmnicolas]

A lot of the SAAS offering usually say something like "for just the price of a coffee a day you can get our service" but If I was to pay for every services I use daily I would need a third job.

[alien3d]

if server fail or service down.you pay peanut get monkey. cheap service quite dangerous unless depend on big investor.

[eloisant]

The reality is that paid services are not immune to be shut down, for example after an acqui-hire. See Astrid, Sparrow and many others.

Heck, even services backed by a web giant like Google are not immune either, they can always decide to shut it down like they did with many of their services.

[tudborg]

epic poem

[jshimko]

Maybe a haiku?

[jiggy2011]

I think it's hard to get people to pay money for something they might not even use. I get the impression that people create twitter accounts on a whim, because if you don't use it then you've lost nothing. If you do use it to the point where you might be willing to pay then you're already locked into the free service.