Ah, that’s a good suggestion: ‘is someone paying Google for this?’ This subsumes the advertising covariate I was musing about (I didn’t bring it up because looking at a bunch of the dead services, I didn’t know how I could possibly check whether advertising was involved). I’ll add that.
And yes, I would be worried about Voice’s long-term prospects, but my impression is that it won’t be going away within the next 5 years, say. They’ve sunsetted the Blackberry app, and neglected the service, but that still leaves the main service and 3 other apps/services according to my current list.
At this point I’m up to 123, so I’m not really keen on going back and recoding all of them; it’s a lot of work, and the profit variable is already a decent predictor.
Ah, that’s a good suggestion: ‘is someone paying Google for this?’ This subsumes the advertising covariate I was musing about (I didn’t bring it up because looking at a bunch of the dead services, I didn’t know how I could possibly check whether advertising was involved). I’ll add that.
And yes, I would be worried about Voice’s long-term prospects, but my impression is that it won’t be going away within the next 5 years, say. They’ve sunsetted the Blackberry app, and neglected the service, but that still leaves the main service and 3 other apps/services according to my current list.
You might want to distinguish between free, freemium (like Google Drive, with a free intro tier), and paid.
At this point I’m up to 123, so I’m not really keen on going back and recoding all of them; it’s a lot of work, and the profit variable is already a decent predictor.