Comments on: Skydeck for BlackBerry is now a premium service http://skydeck.com/blog/announcements/skydeck-for-blackberry-is-now-a-premium-service Your Cell Phone Online Sun, 23 May 2010 17:52:08 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Alan Miller http://skydeck.com/blog/announcements/skydeck-for-blackberry-is-now-a-premium-service/comment-page-1#comment-1124 Alan Miller Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:39:26 +0000 http://skydeck.com/?p=2017#comment-1124 I'm torn: <br>I greatly approve that you folks are going to be making money; I've been concerned that a service I've found very useful would disappear.<br><br>On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that if I wasn't already using Skydeck that I wouldn't be signing up at your new price point. My thinking on that is that I'm using Skydeck because it's a handy way to edit contacts - worlds better than Google's Sync for Blackberry. The Caller ID is a nice touch, but (without going back and counting) I'm going to say that I get less than 20 calls from unknown numbers a month, and that's on a phone that I use for business (IT consulting & support). I'm not sure that paying more than $0.50/call to get after-the-fact identification contact addition would be worth it to me, when I can get that information from the person I'm talking to if I really want it. I'm torn:
I greatly approve that you folks are going to be making money; I've been concerned that a service I've found very useful would disappear.

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that if I wasn't already using Skydeck that I wouldn't be signing up at your new price point. My thinking on that is that I'm using Skydeck because it's a handy way to edit contacts – worlds better than Google's Sync for Blackberry. The Caller ID is a nice touch, but (without going back and counting) I'm going to say that I get less than 20 calls from unknown numbers a month, and that's on a phone that I use for business (IT consulting & support). I'm not sure that paying more than $0.50/call to get after-the-fact identification contact addition would be worth it to me, when I can get that information from the person I'm talking to if I really want it.

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