alt Hacker NewsAnyone is free to use the app to get the best deals. They just need to be willing to put up with its behavior.
That sounds, to me, less like something discriminatory and more like something that is simply sadistic.
Anyone is free to use the app to get the best deals. They just need to be willing to put up with its behavior.
That sounds, to me, less like something discriminatory and more like something that is simply sadistic.
Price discrimination is basically corporate speak for giving discounts to those who wouldn’t or couldn’t afford to pay full price.
And it makes perfect sense in this context - if you make $200k salary you probably don’t care enough about a $0.30 discount to fiddle with an app for 5 minutes. But if you’re living on a few dollars of food budget, you probably care a lot about that 30 cents and would fight for it. So making the app bad allows them to segment the market to get an extra 30 cents out of the person who can afford it without excluding the low-budget person.