I respectfully call this a ridiculous proposition. How is $10/mo expensive for this, or for anything in life?
It seems to me Flow pricing is learning a valuable lesson from MobileMe: if it's useful, people will pay.
It seems to me Flow pricing is learning a valuable lesson from MobileMe: if it's useful, people will pay.
That's where the disconnect is. You seem to think that $10/mo is not expensive for anything in life.
I respectfully disagree. There are probably an infinite number of things for which $10/mo is too expensive, independent of how much money you actually have.
Would you pay me $10/mo to have me send you a random Mark Twain quote as a push notification to your device every day?
I'm not trying to nitpick - only pointing out that your worldview and ideas of what you would pay for don't match that of many/most people.
It seems to me Flow pricing is learning a valuable lesson from MobileMe
Not sure that MobileMe is the best example of this lesson.
If you're using it to help generate income, then it's a tiny price to pay. But the demo video shows "planning a party" as a use case and that can be done almost as effectively for $0 using email.
120$ buys a lot of egg salad sandwiches.
I pay for MobileMe b/c it gives me true over-the-air contact/calendar sync on my iPhone. If another solution came around, I might consider it, but could it be free? And if not free, less than $10/mo?
I also pay for Flickr for purely personal use, b/c I want to be able to share my photos and let my friends/family download full-res files.