Anthropic seems to want to make you buy a subscription, not show you ads.
ChatGPT seems to be more popular to those who don't want to pay, and they are therefore more likely to rely on ads.
ChatGPT seems to be more popular to those who don't want to pay, and they are therefore more likely to rely on ads.
But these are entertainment. For all the time advertising has been present, work tools have been relatively immune. I don't remember seeing ads in IDE for instance, and while magazines had ads, technical documents didn't. I have never seen electronic components datasheets pitching for measuring equipment and soldering irons for instance.
That's why I don't expect Anthropic to go with ads it they follow the path they seem to have taken, like coding agents. People using these tools are likely to react very badly to ads, if there is some space to put ads in the first place, and these are also the kind of people who can spend $100/month on a subscription, way more than what ads will get you.
https://www.theverge.com/news/667042/netflix-ad-supported-ti...
no, netflix wants more income, and by having a product be ad supported, they can try to earn more.
The "market" is not a person, and doesn't have "wants".
> Netflix has more than doubled the number of people watching its ad-supported tier over the last year. At its upfront presentation for advertisers on Wednesday, the company revealed that the $7.99 per month plan now reaches more than 94 million users around the world each month – a big increase from the 40 million it reported in May 2024 and the 70 million it revealed last November.
1/3 of Netflix users (the market) prefer ads over paying to avoid them.
My wife and mother love ads, they are always on the hunt for the latest good deals and love discount shopping. When I tried to remove the ads on their computers or in the postal mail, they protested. I think they are far more representative of the general population.
People have different preferences ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's the "pay but still get ads" thing that gets me, but I guess some people just want to pay the bare minimum.
I don't think the difference for a 12yo is $7.99 for standard with ads vs $17.99 for standard.
It's $0 vs any non-zero dollar amount.
I have never encountered such bad customer service anywhere -- and at 200 bucks a month at that.