The app is free during its beta, but plans to implement a pay-as-you-want subscription starting at $1 per month – this will make the app accessible to everyone, no matter how much they can spend.
It goes so far as to suggest Facebook implement a paid subscription model.
Apps will still be allowed to charge users for individual goods, and can also implement a paid subscription service (launch partner Box.net is using this model).
But here is one that is so patently obvious that it will make your head dizzy: how about we implement a play to pay environment?
"Having said that, and reflecting the difficult impact of the recession on Channel 4, certainly all of our better paid people didn't take a bonus last year and we have implemented a pay freeze".
Managing director Tim Brooks says the company had to move quickly, including implementing a pay freeze, as the scale of red ink could not be dealt with merely by modest cuts here and there.
The company ended its 2-month free beta two weeks ago and implemented a pay wall, in the hopes to convert beta users into payers.
In 1982, Minnesota implemented a pay equity plan for its state employees.
Today, we released new research on the five steps to implementing a pay for success (PFS) project.
That proposition has had at least one real world test -- in California, which a decade ago implemented a paid leave program much like the one Democrats have in mind now.
