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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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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cheaper has never been a promise of big tech. Better, personalized, more convenient, flexible, faster. Cheaper? I missed the promise where we’d get all these benefits for nothing, and in fact be given discounts for getting all these benefits.

Before anyone starts: yes Uber is better than a taxi. Yes, cloud computing is better than on-premises. I’m so sad for this author who can’t work their streaming services, but as bad as cable? Give me a break.

[–] Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For now. Long term contracts are coming to streaming

[–] Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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