Malcolm @Gladwell calls bullshit on Chris Anderson. Chris missed the Effect of the Customer Pyramid & the Time Costs of Discovery

Malcolm @Gladwell calls bullshit on Chris Anderson. Chris missed the Effect of the Customer Pyramid & the Time Costs of Discovery
Some Niches $Monetize Better than others. Chris Anderson fails to take into Account the Opportunity Costs of Discovery & the Value of time for the Customer Pyramid {On top Technology Early Adopters & Reviewers, Below them Prosumers & Power -Users, At the Base of the Pyramid Are the VAST REgular Users [I call them the Walmart, safaricom & Monster Speaker Wire People] because they have made THESE 3 companies Multi billion $ Behemoths!}.!
For Example-And there’s plenty of other information out there that has chosen to run in the opposite direction from Free. The Times gives away its content on its Web site. But the Wall Street Journal has found that more than a million subscribers are quite happy to pay for the privilege of reading online. Broadcast television—the original practitioner of Free—is struggling. But premium cable, with its stiff monthly charges for specialty content, is doing just fine. Apple may soon make more money selling iPhone downloads (ideas) than it does from the iPhone itself (stuff). The company could one day give away the iPhone to boost downloads; it could give away the downloads..@paigecraig Malcolm @Gladwell calls bullshit on Chris Anderson’s “Free: The Future of a Radical Price.” bit.ly/YaM67 (@paigecraig said the same at sxsw09) http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/07/06/090706crbo_books_gladwell?currentPage=all