I don't disagree with you Andrei - I think some people would value it - between $3 and $12/month. Its currently free - and I see 0 value in (hence my page is so dead), but some - like DaveM, do value it, and might even be willing to pay for the privilege of being super-poked.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Andrei Herasimchuk < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 9, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Jared Spool wrote: > > What I've been praying for, to learn what Facebook's business plan is, >> will be finally answered! >> In 3 years, once Mark Zuckerberg figures it out. >> >> http://is.gd/3MSY >> > > So... I have to wonder out loud: Why not just charge $9/month for a > Facebook account? I know that's so 1992 with an that oh-so-dated America > Online model, but hey... At some point, we'll all finally get past the > silly notion that stuff should always be free. Advertising can only support > so many businesses in this space. > > Sure, they'd piss people off (too bad, I say) and lose a bunch in the > process. But if they retained only 25% of a user base of around 50M that are > willing to pay $9/month or $99/year, that's 12.5M users, and a yearly > revenue of something like $1.2B a year. The question is more would they be > able to keep 10M to 12M people paying $9 a month, I think. > > Blizzard has around that for World of Warcraft paying $15 a month, and it's > just a game. I think Facebook would be able to pull it off. > > If Facebook or Google started charging for accounts (Google then gets money > for its applications like Docs, Spreadsheets and such), it would open the > door for everyone in the software business to get back to having real > business models that aren't built out of straw during a fire season waiting > for it all to go up in smoke at a moment's notice. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
