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> Am I a customer or a product? Do you have Cable TV? 70% of America does, knowing that they are both customer and product.
by onedognight 13y ago
> Am I a customer or a product?
Do you have Cable TV? 70% of America does, knowing that they are both customer and product.
- marssaxman 13y ago...which is funny, since I remember a lot of commentary about how the point of paying for cable TV when you can get broadcast TV for free is that by paying for the content you don't have to watch ads. I wonder why that never happened...
- bcRIPster 13y agoActually, in the early days of cable, many channels had no commercials. If you wanted to watch commercials, you'd flip over to the home shopping network and play the "guess the final" price game with your buds.
- potatolicious 13y agoAnd cable providers are some of the most hated companies that people live with. Have you ever met even a single person who's a fan of their cable company? The difference here is while cable has (for now) an iron grasp on content and monopoly in their coverage areas, gaming has competition.
- onedognight 13y ago> Have you ever met even a single person who's a fan of their cable company? I am. I don't buy their TV or phone service, but they provide the best internet connection in every place I have lived. They have consistently been cheaper and faster than fios, uverse and any DSL. I can run a server, they don't block ports, and my IP is effectively static.
- tomflack 13y agoClearly he's referring to cable company as in Cable TV company, not company that runs a cable in to your house while on division sells internet and another a TV package.
- pyrocat 13y agoWhich is why the cable cutting movement is so popular.