Technology
The Free Tier Quietly Disappears
Software companies spent a decade giving away a usable product to build a funnel. The economics of that giveaway changed when the marginal cost of a free user stopped rounding to zero.
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Publishers Start Building for Readers Who Never Click
Search and social sent a generation of publishers the audience their businesses were designed around. As answers replace links, the surviving strategies assume the visit may never happen at all.