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> After the Spectrum fee rises within days to $7.50 a month, that will translate to at least $120 million. Monthly. Or at least $1.4 billion a year. I agree wi
by oconnor663 8y ago
> After the Spectrum fee rises within days to $7.50 a month, that will translate to at least $120 million. Monthly. Or at least $1.4 billion a year.
I agree with the overall "screw those monopolistic rent seekers" theme, but I hate seeing summaries like this. Is $1.4 billion a lot? If you told me it was $100 million per year, that would still sound like a lot, but apparently in this context that would represent not a lot? These are meaningless big numbers.
- nickpsecurity 8y agoWell, a $50 Roku boxI bought a relative streams HD from Netflix and other services. Way more than what a cable modem does. You'd have buy 28 million of them to hit $1.4 billion, but realistically they'd get volume discount. These companies sell less functionality for more money and keep charging after it's probably paid off. Does that put it more into perspective?
- oconnor663 8y agoYes, comparing the price of a set top box to the price of a Roku sounds much more reasonable. And I'm sure we could think of a dozen different comparisons besides. The point is that we should be making these comparisons instead of dropping gigantic numbers by themselves for effect :p