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Redex68@lemmy.world 10 hours agoI mean, there are some who will be willing to do that, but the vast majority of average people won’t pay for something if a free version exists (like WhatsApp)
Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads
Redex68@lemmy.world 10 hours agoI mean, there are some who will be willing to do that, but the vast majority of average people won’t pay for something if a free version exists (like WhatsApp)
SheenSquelcher@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
Even if they charged 1.99 they’d be making a decent cut for future investment (they are a nonprofit).
GrapheneOS lives on donations too. Its definately possible.
Redex68@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I mean comparing it to GrapheneOS doesn’t make much sense, they don’t have recurring costs.
SheenSquelcher@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
What, like salaries?
grapheneos.org/hiring
Redex68@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
No, they don’t have recurring costs that scale with their size. The whole original point of my argument was that Signal is fine now because its userbase is above averagely passionate about it and willing to donate, but if it were to become mainstream that would mean the percent of its users donating would go down whilst its cost would go up, in other words its costs would outscale its revenue. This doesn’t apply to GaprheneOS as their costs don’t scale with the number of users.