[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] <offtopic> Tiered Pricing for Free Web Services
How long until the mashups have to pay for free services in a tiered model? I note that Google reversed the policy and only asks for notification if one is expecting lots of traffic, but at scale, they can afford that. Others can't and investors demand profits and growth. Once upon a time, airlines had lots of goodies. The basis of the mashup is the simplicity of the components. The basis of airline goodies was high ticket costs and non-commodity passengers but essentially commodity airliners. Once again, call-girl prices for street level services. As long as the quality is high and the customers are selected (not selective, selected, say cherry-picked), that economy works. But as the market transitions into a condition where price and other competitive pressures require less selection of customers, quality declines as as supplies are limited. No one is interested, they say, in such markets but that is witless. Market evolution is not about CEO choices or even buyer choices. It is about limits on resources (say, data quality and currency, for example). I wonder about the load point for competition based on mashups. To do what the pundits tell us is already happening (I doubt it is because I think free mashups are sheltering in a pool of excess capacity), the Internet infrastructure has to have the analog of zero-point energy. len
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