In many
countries television viewers still pay for television
broadcasts - but in the USA and many other countries in the
West, the basic package of television channels comes free of
charge.
As users / consumers form a habit of using (or consuming) the
software - it is commercialized and begins to carry a price
tag. This is what happened with the advent of cable television
: contents are sold for subscription or per usage (Pay Per
View - PPV) fees.
Gradually, this is what will happen to most of the sites and
software on the Net. Those which survive will begin to collect
usage fees, access fees, subscription fees, downloading fees
and other, appropriately named, fees. These fees are bound to
be low - but it is the principle that counts. Even a few cents
per transaction may accumulate to hefty sums with the traffic
which characterizes some web sites on the Net (or, at least
its more popular locales).
3. Increased User Friendliness
As long as the computer is less user friendly and less
reliable (predictable) than television - less of a black box -
its potential (and its future) is limited.
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