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Yes, because Netflix and Spotify are amazing, amazing deals. The news? You can read that anywhere. Why would anyone subscribe to a service that offers them what
by archagon 9y ago
Yes, because Netflix and Spotify are amazing, amazing deals. The news? You can read that anywhere. Why would anyone subscribe to a service that offers them what they already have?
And yet, people are more than happy to tip a busker or leave a few bucks for the waiter or bartender. (Even outside the US, where tipping isn't expected.)
- criddell 9y agoThere's more than one thing at play here though. Netflix and Spotify are giving people something they want without a lot of friction. I can get everything on those services for free other places but the experience is worse. People are tipping buskers because they are sharing a physical location with that person. Put the video of the street performance on YouTube with a tip button and the dollars per view number is going to drop drastically. Bartenders and waiters are tipped well because they are providing personal service.
- XorNot 9y agoThe news fails because to be useful these days you need to consume news from a variety of sources. And you explicitly don't want to only get news from one media empire because then you're just getting whatever bias the CEO wants distributed. I haven't heard a subscription news model which doesn't feel like its also trying to sunk-cost me into being less critical of the reporting.
- criddell 9y agoI subscribe to Netflix, cable TV, MLBtv, Amazon Prime Video, and YouTube Red. The only newsy thing I subscribe to is New Yorker magazine. Subscribing to multiple services isn't that unusual. There just has to be some value to it.