alt Hacker NewsI think there will always be a free tier that they'll be willing to use. Even if it sounds hackneyed, those folks will still use it because many people are not discerning readers anyway.
I think there will always be a free tier that they'll be willing to use. Even if it sounds hackneyed, those folks will still use it because many people are not discerning readers anyway.
Despite what I just said, I do hope so, because I'm really not inclined to pay for it, at least not very much. I don't need another $100-200/mo bill in my life, and it doesn't provide that level of value as a chatbot. Google is enough.
I'm not sure that free tier will necessarily continue forever though, unless there is a way to monetize it (presumably by advertising, or by selling data they've gleaned about the user), or perhaps if there is no privacy and the provider is treating you as a source of free data. Right now we're still in the market-share grabbing "never mind the profits, count the users" stage.