Yes, I didn’t account for the transaction fees. But I believe my point still stands. If people find enough value in it, they’d probably pay for it; and that’s why Tesla is charging what they are.
I do agree with you about it being batshit crazy. If it were me, I sure as hell wouldn’t want to pay $15/mo for that. But I try to be a cheapskate where I can.
We can probably look at the reddit paid API change as a real world approximation of free to paid conversions versus users just dropping usage. Not reddit usage overall, but a third party app that stayed and needed to start charging users because of the paid API. Not sure if there are any apps that stuck around and released that sort of information to reference.
RedReader is still going, and is still free. I’ve been using it since essentially its first release over a decade ago. I was the first to suggest the dev accept donations, around 4 years ago, as it’s a one-man job and it used to get regular updates. And the dev has stated he wants to add lemmy functionality alongside the existing reddit code, so users can switch between the two like an account switch, and maintain the UI they are fond of.
(I’m using Thunder currently while I want for RR lemmy support, but obviously I quite like the app, have recommended it to many)
You’re ignoring transaction costs.
Also $15/month is batshit insane.
Yes, I didn’t account for the transaction fees. But I believe my point still stands. If people find enough value in it, they’d probably pay for it; and that’s why Tesla is charging what they are.
I do agree with you about it being batshit crazy. If it were me, I sure as hell wouldn’t want to pay $15/mo for that. But I try to be a cheapskate where I can.
I would imagine most of those 400k users wouldn’t pay that much either.
We can probably look at the reddit paid API change as a real world approximation of free to paid conversions versus users just dropping usage. Not reddit usage overall, but a third party app that stayed and needed to start charging users because of the paid API. Not sure if there are any apps that stuck around and released that sort of information to reference.
Did any stick around? I thought they all folded.
RedReader is still going, and is still free. I’ve been using it since essentially its first release over a decade ago. I was the first to suggest the dev accept donations, around 4 years ago, as it’s a one-man job and it used to get regular updates. And the dev has stated he wants to add lemmy functionality alongside the existing reddit code, so users can switch between the two like an account switch, and maintain the UI they are fond of.
(I’m using Thunder currently while I want for RR lemmy support, but obviously I quite like the app, have recommended it to many)
Relay for Reddit (Android) is still going it seems.
Tesla is charging what they’re charging to eliminate competition, but still say they’re an open platform for anyone.