pud's Starbucks analogy is still apt though. Bitly is making a conscious change to their business model, and they have to insert a speed bump in the link-shortening process to start making money. There's no way they can continue providing seamless 1-click link-shortening for free.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, if you forgive the cliche.
>There's no such thing as a free lunch, if you forgive the cliche.
Yes, but that doesn't turn everything non-free into a lunch. Try to force your change to happen too quickly, and you're simply going to watch your customers boil away to nothing. In the end, your customer base will be little more than the kind of people that make cybersquatters money because they think that the best way to search for bullets is to type "bullet.com" into the URL bar.
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pud's Starbucks analogy is still apt though. Bitly is making a conscious change to their business model, and they have to insert a speed bump in the link-shortening process to start making money. There's no way they can continue providing seamless 1-click link-shortening for free.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, if you forgive the cliche.
>There's no such thing as a free lunch, if you forgive the cliche.
Yes, but that doesn't turn everything non-free into a lunch. Try to force your change to happen too quickly, and you're simply going to watch your customers boil away to nothing. In the end, your customer base will be little more than the kind of people that make cybersquatters money because they think that the best way to search for bullets is to type "bullet.com" into the URL bar.