Skype's Freemium Rate (free/fee) is flat

Local fluctuations are less interesting than the range.

I applied several curve fits to Skype's freemium ratio but nothing reliable came of it. I don't imagine it is predictive of anything, merely descriptive. 

The wobbliness[1] of Skype's freemium ratio is, obviously, a function of variations in the supporting data. Eyeballing it, free activity leads fee by a few months. This makes sense if free experiences are preparatory behavior to greater commitment.

At a larger chart scale, like 1-100, the world of percentages, the curve would look amazingly flat. Many freemium businesses would interpret a ratio in Skype's 7-8 range as golden.

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[1] I did love Professor Magaddino's econometrics classes, but wobbly suggests so much more than the proper language of statistics.