You can argue all day whether it’s ok to do this, and I’d absolutely say it’s fine, even laudable that they’re trying to make a real business where you have to pay for a product. Great for them!
But “rug pull” is absolutely still a correct description of what’s happening, because it was free, and now it’s not. Here’s a nice rug, but you have to get off of it by $DATE because we’re going to pull it. It’s a rug pull.
If it wasn’t a rug pull, I’d be able to keep standing on the rug (the free version.)
Very strange logic. If we follow your example, going to the dealership and taking a car for a test drive is a rug pull because eventually the car dealer will ask you to pay for the car?
There's a way to do that. Don't call it free beta with no pricing attached. Call it "free trial for X period" and ideally advertise the price ahead of time as it was always done in the past. Not calling it a "trial" is not an accident. It is deliberate and that's what makes it a rug pull.
ninkendo|4 months ago
A product is free. Then it isn’t free.
You can argue all day whether it’s ok to do this, and I’d absolutely say it’s fine, even laudable that they’re trying to make a real business where you have to pay for a product. Great for them!
But “rug pull” is absolutely still a correct description of what’s happening, because it was free, and now it’s not. Here’s a nice rug, but you have to get off of it by $DATE because we’re going to pull it. It’s a rug pull.
If it wasn’t a rug pull, I’d be able to keep standing on the rug (the free version.)
khamidou|4 months ago
tgma|4 months ago