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Flickr, Smugmug, Netflix, Dropbox, Skype, eFax, Wordpress, Typepad, Hulu Plus. In my experience some people can't imagine how willing other people are to pay for things. If you're one of the people that hasn't even bought a $0.99 iPhone app you're very out of touch with a huge segment of the population.
For me, my thinking on one time fees vs monthly fees comes down to this: Once I buy something, every time I use it decreases the amount of money I spent on it per time I used it. But with monthly payments, every time I don't use it makes it more expensive for every time I use it. The latter forces me to use it more, which is a burden if it is not something I need to have. I think you'll find that most of the webapps…
- Jungledisk+S3 (for off-site backup)
- Skype minutes
- Pinboard.in (as of 12 hours ago)
Being in a non-US location (Aka "Rest of the world") a lot of online content offerings including iTunes, Netflix and Hulu, are off-limits to me even if I wanted to pay.
I'll pay for anything that saves me a lot time, has a great interface, and/or replaces something I already use.
I'd consider paying for a very usable todo-list app that synced over dropbox instead of charging me a monthly fee (i.e. remember the milk), and had an amazing user interface over the free google task apps.
I'd also love to pay for mint if it similarly just worked over something more secure/local, and had an open backend (I had accounts that didn't sync at all correctly on mint). Maybe wesabe should be revisited.
not counting vps'es or anything as that's more of a hobby/entrepreneurship thing.