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ajg1977 ◴[28 Sep 10 01:41 UTC] No.1734276[source]▶

Man, I'm gutted. I use Xmarks every day to sync from my work & windows machines (Firefox) to my MacBook (Safari) and thus to my iPhone / iPad. I'd have happily paid $5 a month or so to use Xmarks and I imagine I'm not alone.

It's really unfortunate that they won't even try the freemium, or (shock!) even the outright pay to play approach. I'm sure with two million users there would have been enough paying customers to create a profitable business.

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1. mtr ◴[28 Sep 10 10:33 UTC] No.1735199[source]▶

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I have a feeling that Xmarks is getting more press by saying that they will shut things down in 3 months versus them making an annoucement that they're shifting to a fremium model.

While it could backfire, the additional press coverage could be leveraged to a freemium model if they do it before everyone abandons ship.

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End of the Road for Xmarks