App Store is a Solution to The Penny Gap at The Gong Show by Andrew Parker
Incredible post by Andrew, recommended for students of Business Model Design for Web Services.
Here’s my comment (click over for full context):
I especially enjoyed naveen’s point (and your response) re: intention.
In communities/networks, you have to be more creative with how you use payments; a corollary to (or inversion of) Josh’s “penny gap” would be using payment as a firewall to create value for users (see: craigslist charging landlords to post “for rent” classified ads to reduce duplicate postings).
Frankly I thought that this was one area where Twitter would use payment to create value for users (e.g. as your following:follower ratio >1, you have to pony up $.
Thanks for posting on this Andrew; as a non-iPhone user it’s something I’ve been curious about ;-)
