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> We have solved this problem for music and movies already Even in the US, arguably the golden land when it comes to the library size of the services you talk
by krageon 8y ago
> We have solved this problem for music and movies already
Even in the US, arguably the golden land when it comes to the library size of the services you talk about, people are frustrated about walled gardens forming in these services.
Companies producing content (or companies at all) want to "diversify", especially into things they already have some content for (as is the case for publishing companies). The next question is how to pull people to your platform and the answer is simple: make your content available nowhere else. Thus, another walled garden is born. This is the pattern you see in the wild now that streaming has become popular.
This pattern does not solve the aggregation problem at all, in fact it stands exactly in the way of it working.
- atemerev 8y agoPaying subscription for aggregated news sources (even if there are several major aggregators) is still infinitely more convenient than managing 5-6 individual subscriptions.
- krageon 8y agoIf you move the goalposts, then any argument will eventually converge on the target of sounding reasonable. You started out by claiming that unifying subscriptions was "a solved problem". I responded by saying that it clearly is not, and that the intent of the industry as it is now will converge on least convenience. Whether or not 4 subscriptions are more convenient than 40 is fundamentally immaterial, as that is not what we were discussing.