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As a publisher, I'd want consistent subscription revenue. The goal is to convince users to pay after they hit the paywall several times.
Shows how difficult it is to design and build software at scale.
Long-term it'd be best for Wikipedia if it was self-funded through this, like Harvard, for instance.
I guess except the game developers but the most realistic threat vector for them is the studio shutting down, so a union wouldn't really help.
RSS lost when browsers dropped its native support. Would be interesting to see a world where Chrome/Safari still had clients for it.
As for the strategy, that's the idea but all of them market themselves on the returns first and foremost.
I'm not too serious here but even many news media publications are just dropping it, or separate into dozens of unconnected feeds.
But yes, I don't really want to pay Apple $100 a year just to run my apps. So I just have them as PWAs. Wouldn't work for many use cases, like when you need Apple Fitness data, but works for me and it looks fine.