Tech’s broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

  • @[email protected]
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    119 months ago

    Yea cable sucked way more, atleast we aren’t locked into contracts with these services. Subscribe for a month watch the last years entire catalog and unsubscribe, rinse and repeat. You don’t need every subscription to be always active.

    • @Tsrich92
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      69 months ago

      For now. Long term contracts are coming to streaming

      • @[email protected]
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        49 months ago

        Haha good luck with forcing people into a contract when you got like 2 shows airing at any given time. If they want a contract the content has to explode by atleast 4 fold

    • @scarabic
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      59 months ago

      Yyyyep. The way they package channels is so irritating. And the advertising load you get with cable TV is intolerable to me. My parents are conditioned to it after decades but it drives me insane fast.

      • @Deftdrummer
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        69 months ago

        That’s why I just bittorrent the fuck out of everything. I’ll never play the game.