http://ivan-herman.name/2009/10/16/seduce-with-free-services/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:40:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://ivan-herman.name/2009/10/16/seduce-with-free-services/#comment-5592 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:12:19 +0000 http://ivan-herman.name/?p=420#comment-5592 Well, it is a general direction. It’s called a huge recession and weak businesses are failing. Without enough profits from paying customers to underwrite their marketing (the limited free service), the company cuts their marketing expenditures. Of course cutting marketing is simply a stalling tactic which presages failing completely. So, no, Gmail isn’t giving up the free offering unless this recession develops fully into the second Great Depression (which seems less likely than simply another year or two of recession in the US).

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