1. Apps are useful in an offline market, like when you are in the subway with no data service.
2. People don't like micropayments. They are willing to put up with ads instead. Why do people keep flogging micropayments and ignoring actual customer behavior? On-search-result ads will get you some slight income without the hassle of trying to get your customer base to adopt some wacky and ill-supported payments mechanism.
I feel that the dismissal of apps in favor of a major shift in customer behavior is at best a sign of detachment from what the end user wants. (And I would tend to go further into "boil the ocean" and "architecture astronaut" thinking but that is not likely to be productive here, so let's leave well enough alone.)
1. Apps are useful in an offline market, like when you are in the subway with no data service.
2. People don't like micropayments. They are willing to put up with ads instead. Why do people keep flogging micropayments and ignoring actual customer behavior? On-search-result ads will get you some slight income without the hassle of trying to get your customer base to adopt some wacky and ill-supported payments mechanism.
I feel that the dismissal of apps in favor of a major shift in customer behavior is at best a sign of detachment from what the end user wants. (And I would tend to go further into "boil the ocean" and "architecture astronaut" thinking but that is not likely to be productive here, so let's leave well enough alone.)