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Originally Posted by mightybao
How is it unethical to encourage users to pay for an app instead of freeloading off the LITE version? You'll have to explain that one to me.
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Well, the context of the Pincus quote is a little more extreme than what we're talking about here. Basically, he said that when Zynga first started out and they didn't have much money, he literally did "every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues," to the point of degrading the quality of the product.
I'm not saying that pushing tons of ads is on that level, but, depending on your implementation, it can follow down that path. Especially when you start saying things like, "To annoy the hell out of my users..."
Also, there really is no concept of freeloading a free product. You make something, and you exchange it for a price. If the price is free, then the price is free. The user has no moral obligation to click on ads...I doubt that we're all making sure to click on an ad once a day, in exchange for using this free forum.
