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malfistyesterday at 7:02 PM1 replyview on HN

Are you saying these companies don't want to sell more product to us? Because that's the logical extension of your argument.


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keedayesterday at 8:08 PM

No, the argument is they want to sell more product to more people, not just more product (to the same people.) Given that a lot of their income is from flat-rate subscriptions, they make money with more people burning tokens rather than just burning more tokens.

After all, "the first hit's free" model doesn't apply to repeat customers ;-)