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Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle (www.wired.com)
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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Can you cite an example where this has actually worked/led to a stable business model?

[–] probablyaCat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I can cite an example of it with an inventory based company. KIA sold their cars at damn near a loss in the US for a long time to get a good foothold. And it worked. Iirc they had a bogo on cars at one point even.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amazon undercut like crazy and is utterly massive today. They're basically the online shopping company.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Amazon is a goods-based business though, they ship massive amounts of inventory.

[–] DocBlaze@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, but once again, I did say that

I don't agree with it either

I can however, point to evidence that it's a popular business model, if you don't mind accepting hacker news and y-combinator articles, as well as YouTube media of startup CEOs in earnings calls, but I refuse to defend it otherwise. These are often people with lots of money and advanced stem + business degrees however, so Im not going to sit here and act like I easily know better than them. I can say it did work for Google, but this is after they already were dominating with ad revenue and had the means to slowly introduce ads into every platform they owned ( youtube, maps, android). Popular platforms like DoorDash also have yet to become profitable, despite commanding a 70% market share on food delivery.