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minus-squareScrubblesOPlinkfedilinkEnglish50•6 months agodon’t forget 3 years later when the subscription isn’t profitable enough, so they start injecting ads into the paid subscribers as well.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish30•6 months agoOr when they complain that not enough people are using it so they relaunch it as “Google Roads”.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•6 months ago“Google roads”->“road maps”->“Google directions”->“Google maps”
don’t forget 3 years later when the subscription isn’t profitable enough, so they start injecting ads into the paid subscribers as well.
Or when they complain that not enough people are using it so they relaunch it as “Google Roads”.
“Google roads”->“road maps”->“Google directions”->“Google maps”
Promptly killing off the old version