I'm an iOS user and avoided paying because they insist on activating re-occuring payments to do so.<p>I give Google a lot of shit (because you took an open source OS and riddled it with trackers, so why not just... buy a closed source phone that doesn't suck?), but I always had a hodgepodge of services because I tried to be fairly platform agnostic.<p>(eg: Spotify isn't actually the best, but unlike Apple Music is cross platform, and then I can actually at least say I paid for the music even if the rates suck -- they can at least get popular then tour, so... the least evil, plus don't have to rely on some hipster barista to give me new songs.)<p>The bigger issue is one group owning very different apps with very different models. (Looking for casual vs for a semester or three as you rack up another degree vs marriage are all different things.)<p>I'd hope after a month or three of paying for the uh... "good leads" to put it in Glenn Garry Ross terms, you'd just have some phone numbers you ping at night on the OTHER app like a cool dude. People use these apps too long, if you don't know someone to booty call after a year or two, maybe take some time off.<p>(My issue remains that I'm a 2 on the Kinsey scale[1], so I get all the hate that queer people get without much of the benefit since guys hate that I'm very up front we will never get married even if the supreme court decides that's OK.)<p>Google are probably doing the right thing, but I worry that is causes a LOT of problems out in the world if people perceive that folks are obstructing their love life due to lack of income.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale</a>