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Opera Kills Off Its Free Data-Saving App, Opera Max (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the getting-rid-of-things dept.

Mark Wycislik-Wilson, writing for BetaNews: Opera Max -- the free data-saving and VPN-like tool from the team behind the Opera web browser -- is being killed off. The app has been removed from Google Play with immediate effect, and there will be no more updates. Opera is not really giving a reason for the sudden decision other that the fact that Opera Max had "a substantially different value proposition than our browser products."

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  1. Translation by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2

    "We lost fuckloads of money because our business model relied on it becoming insanely popular, and it wasn't"

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    const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
    SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
    1. Re:Translation by macraig · · Score: 2

      "... substantially different value proposition... "

      Lord, do these people talk like that at home? If so I'm guessing they're still lacking wives.

    2. Re:Translation by Riceballsan · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Actually I'd imagine further the other way, their business model probably relied on it encouraging many to get the browser, and few people using the VPN, and instead it resulted in people who already use the browser just using the vpn and few new customers.

  2. Sounds like.. by intellitech · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ..a value proposition was pointed out in which it no longer makes sense to offer it for free.

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    vos nescitis quicquam, nec cogitatis quia expedit nobis ut unus moriatur homo pro populo et non tota gens pereat.