Content providers do not like payments for microtransactions either, because they punish avid users, nickel-and-diming them to death, while rewarding dabblers by giving them what they want at low cost.
He criticised BP for failing to rule out a quarterly shareholder dividend, saying the company should not be "nickel and diming" Gulf coast residents over damage claims while spending billions on the dividends.
Putting the bundle into the first fare screen rather than throwing add-on fees at customers after they select a price is American's attempt to ease the "nickel and diming" effect, Mr. Elieson said.
Russian malware writers have begun to create new SMS Trojans for Android, whereas a users phone is sending repeated texts to 1-900 phone numbers, nickle and diming millions of users around the world who barely notice their phone account has been compromised.