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Meh. Of course this is "worse", it isn't something from the Gods Who Are Named Apple. > Amazon announced this week that it’s increasing the price of Amazon Pri
by res0nat0r 13y ago
Meh. Of course this is "worse", it isn't something from the Gods Who Are Named Apple.
> Amazon announced this week that it’s increasing the price of Amazon Prime from $80 to $100 per year, its first price change since its introduction in 2005.
> This has not been a popular decision, to put it lightly, but most Prime customers — which I’ve been since 2005 — aren’t really going anywhere. There’s nowhere to go. Amazon has either destroyed or bought every competitor that has ever come close to its retail business.
This sounds redundant. There is complaining about lack of competition, yet you still keep using the service (and are part of destroying that competition by using Amazon).
The addon program has added items which would have never been on the site previously, so that is a win, I'm sure other items which just can't be shipped by themselves cost effectively have been removed, but times change. Streaming videos are also an addition that are a win for those who use it. Also your bill is going up from $6.66 a month (the cost of one beer) to $8.33 (the cost of 1.5 beers) a month for streaming video and 2 day shipping on tons of items, I don't see a ton to complain about. I'm surprise the price hasn't been jacked up years ago just due to increasing shipping costs across the board.
- nuclearzenfire 13y agoI guess you missed: "Apple’s Maps is still worse and has fewer features than Google Maps" "Many of Apple’s other applications and services have suffered as well as they’ve spread themselves too thinly and competed on more fronts."
- teach 13y ago> The addon program has added items which would have never been on the site previously, so that is a win This isn't correct. I have items in my purchase history that were not Add-On items and now are. Maybe some new items are here because of add-on, but it's also true that existing items used to be purchasable by themselves and now are only available as add-ons.
- res0nat0r 13y agoThose items would have been deleted from the site without the addon program and not available anymore at all because it is probably no longer viable to ship them standalone, so the addon program is a is a net win.
- mikeash 13y agoHow do you know that?
- res0nat0r 13y agoFrom every add-on items description: "This item is available because of the Add-on program The Add-on program allows Amazon to offer thousands of low-priced items that would be cost-prohibitive to ship on their own." These tiny items wouldn't be stocked at all if they didn't offer them via add-on, somewhere in their literature they've said these items are only stocked because of this program.
- mikeash 13y agoBecause they couldn't possibly be lying?
- res0nat0r 13y agoSigh. I guess that is conspiracy theory default now days for things you are unable to prove.
- mikeash 13y agoIt is not a "conspiracy theory" to think that companies might be putting a positive spin on (i.e. lying about) changes made to increase their bottom line. That's what companies do.