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According to most of the freemium gurus, freemium and free trial are not the same thing; the former is defined as having a level of service that is free forever. Obviously free trials are by definition not free forever.


Freemium is a new word. A similar concept is 'crippleware' - you can do everything but not print. Or you can print, but it'll have a watermark. Or you can only save at certain resolutions. Etc.

I guess they would have been called freemium if the word existed then.




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