alt Hacker NewsYes and credit cards are a learned behavior, not an instinctual thing - and I think not buying an app for $1 is largely based on instinct.
Yes and credit cards are a learned behavior, not an instinctual thing - and I think not buying an app for $1 is largely based on instinct.
People instinctively or factually know that there are other apps that do basically the same thing for free.
It's the case for messaging apps and for almost any other kind of app. It's hard to beat the price point of a free app, even if it might include tracking, advertising, spying inside their package.
If WhatsApp would start asking for money hundreds of millions of people would switch to something else in a few days, even to a free app created overnight to capitalize on the opportunity.