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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 (www.businessinsider.com)
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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.

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It was the free hit to get you hooked and dump your cable subscriptions. Now they have you and they're going to increase costs every year from here on out and then start with advertisements because fuck you you're going to pay it anyways.

[–] nightmareofahorse@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Joke's on them. I cut it all out

[–] Mikekm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That was my first thought. Guess I just won't watch anything and go back to reading books.

[–] WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

To be completely fair, Netflix basically invented the successful tv replacement streaming business model and it's not their fault that every media ruined it by starting their own. Media companies screwed us, not tech companies.