Now when SSL certificates could be free for everyone, I am thinking about, "What will the current Comercial SSL/CAs like Synamtec, GeoTrust, Thawte, Comodo...". What you think will be the strategy to sell SSL for money. I think I would still consider some other CA that Let's Encrypt for example to serve HTTPS for mobile applicaion API. But what do You think about the next steps of Synamtec, GeoTrust, Thawte, Comodo... ???
Aside from EV, they might also continue to sell DV certs if the price is low enough (sub-$10). Let's Encrypt is cheap, but it is massively inconvenient, and a lot of people would prefer to "waste" a few dollars on a streamlined process than spend hours trying to get Let's Encrypt working with their platform/infrastructure/etc.<p>I just spend $9 renewing with Comodo's "PositiveSSL" because Let's Encrypt was too much hassle.