Problem is that these companies that do this were never actually making money. They might had revenue, but that is not same as making profit.
The model was fundamentally broken in most cases. You can not expect to give out something for free and the product being free being one of the reasons for picking it up and then at same time make huge amount of money.
The model was fundamentally broken in most cases. You can not expect to give out something for free and the product being free being one of the reasons for picking it up and then at same time make huge amount of money.