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Last fall, the company started promoting the free AOL.com, which featured most of the content it had offered its paying subscribers.
(I've asked Kantar if it will provided an "indexed" figure, but so far it hasn't. It probably reserves these figures to its paying clients, as is its right).
While this was a "brutal" process, as Filev put it, it ensured that the company listened to its (paying) customers and quickly iterated based on their needs.
Moreover, the company has suggested tax reforms that it knows would result in its paying higher corporate taxes, including reforms that would encourage repatriation of money earned abroad.
To pay for those free or subsidized services, the minimal state charges its paying customers more than it otherwise would.
It could also endanger Spotify's ability to grow its paying subscriber base beyond the six million customers it has today (out of 20 million total users).
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Google says it has never restricted access to its paid ads in order to punish rivals.
Yahoo recently expanded its paid inclusion program.
United uses "personalized" pricing for its paid upgrades.
Its paid apps are doing well, too.
The difference is that HP is tightly integrating its free services with its paid services.
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