Add to this that they make it really, really hard to unsubscribe. I think there's been some legal crackdowns, but for a time, they could make it literally impossible.
replycorrect, they have made it impossible, charged my 2002-era PayPal account when i said, "i want to leave, don't"
replyThis article is like an advertisement. Here's how they spin it:
reply> Speaking to TechCrunch, co-founder and chief product officer Matteo Danieli said some of the scrutiny was due to the fact that products such as Evernote were genuinely loved by their users. But he said that despite all the changes, customer retention has been “remarkably stable.”
Ah yes. In other news, the prison population size is also remarkably stable.
> a perpetual bond with declining coupon payments
replyMost things with royalties (oil fields, songs) work like this.
Yes, agree.
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