379: ‘An Extra Kick in the Nuts’, With Christian Selig
The Talk Show With John Gruber
The Importance of Paying for Cool Icons
"I don't think to this day, I've had like really any complaints where people are like, I have to pay for this," he said. "It just satisfies a part of your brain to pay for cool icons." It's the app equivalent of like the Fortnite style of gameplay, right? And people are happy to pay for those costumes and custom dance moves in Fortnite. But because it doesn't give you any advantage in the game, everybody feels good about it, right? So it's like, Oh, I didn't win. I lost, but you know, you didn't lose because the guy you lost who paid more money. That person, they
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