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Re: WHY did they drop it not mentioned said by fAcEtIOUs:But I suspect that Yahoo, in deep trouble financially, wanted a lot more money from AT&T to provide Flickr Pro services for free to their customers. And if the amount requested by Yahoo was large enough, AT&T would have had to increase prices for their internet users. Hence, the downgrade to regular Flickr accounts. Yahoo! should have been able to predict if AT&T was unwilling to pay a new higher fee for free services and would have been further ahead to raise it for everyone (not just ISPs who buy in BULK, but unwilling to pay full price per user).
No, considering AT&T have been on the front lines of claiming a "bandwidth apocalypse", adding caps, pay-per-byte, outrageous overage charges, and acting as if 99% of their customers were already overusing their accounts. I would be more willing to suspect AT&T of the drop. |
