naveen

"ah that makes sense. i thought only games mostly did that kind of feature-based pricing. still will take a bit of getting used to, especially on the productivity app side" - naveen

"on your point two, i would add that a software developer also has no real way of getting you to pay for upgrades on mobile. so even if i were to charge $5 for my fancy new email app, all future work i put into bug fixes and upgrades and "exchange support" and customer service and the like will come out of my own pocket." - naveen

"the first thing i thought of as i read this was your original "craigslist spawn" post – one of my favorites ever" - naveen

"i was _just_ talking to eric friedman about this the other day. i use google less for many types of searches these days and usually just go straight to the app to do a query. i think you're right in that this is perhaps more a mobile-only behavior on the web, i still search for "software dev" or sysadmin (or weather or movies or ...) questions using google – either because it's habit from 20 years of using search engines on web – or because i know google is going to point me to stackexchange anyway. it's easier for me to just type my query into the address bar and click the first link to stack as opposed to going to stack first and then doing it there. (and perhaps limiting myself to just one dataset) if google now or spotlight had a similar ability to point you to different apps on mobile (as the general search bar does for a few things like your contacts), then i might just be more inclined to use the general search bar. but obviously, this is too hard for "personal"/evergreen data:..." - naveen