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I love how this entire submarine garbage article is written from the perspective that customers are somehhow cheating by doing this and it’s their consumerly du
by tsunamifury 3y ago
I love how this entire submarine garbage article is written from the perspective that customers are somehhow cheating by doing this and it’s their consumerly duty to pay for junk they don’t want.
This is when a market turns, when old executives with old mindsets are shocked, then appalled that a consumer has choice.
- neilv 3y agoIt's not necessarily an old mindset. Newer mindsets in tech and media business are also flush with vapid baggery.
- pwg 3y agoAnd they ("old executives with old mindsets") brought it on themselves by fracturing the market into 50+ different streaming services, and then playing "round-robin" games with shows (a given show bounces around among each service for a short time before it moves on to the next). If they ("old executives with old mindsets") want the warm cozy feeling of the old cable bundle (customers paid for the monthly subscription regularly each month), they need to provide one single streaming service that people can sign up for, that streams /everything/ for a reasonable monthly fee (and cable bundle pricing levels is not "reasonable"). They always forget that their true competitor is the piracy scene, and the only benefit they can offer to overcome "free of charge" is an "easy and convenient one to find what a subscriber wants, when they want it". And 50+ different streaming services with shows always shuffling around from one to the next is very far from "easy and convenient".
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- ajmurmann 3y agoWhat approach do you think they should take? License content to Apple TV or some other platform?