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Not to be shallow, but this runs counter to Amazon's purported customer obsession - no? I say this as someone recently "tricked" into buying some movies through
by Denzel 6y ago
Not to be shallow, but this runs counter to Amazon's purported customer obsession - no? I say this as someone recently "tricked" into buying some movies through Prime. The layman in me thought, surely the distinction between "Rent" and "Buy" on this screen means I own the content. While the software engineer in me thought: what would happen if Prime or Amazon disappeared; how would I keep my purchase?
Guess I have the answer to my question now. I don't.
Will most likely purchase physical media for things that are important enough to me now.
- P_I_Staker 6y agoTheir consumer obsession is to convince more people to use their platform to buy more products. Letting people free themselves from the platform runs counter to that goal. It's not even just that, they have licensing to worry about. Do any content providers even allow a cross platform license, if the Amazon/Google/ect even wanted to do this? The content creators have always wanted to charge by the view, they never wanted it to make it easy to "own" the content.