The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices
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For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn't want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.
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All great points. That said, no one should feel sympathy for Disney's profit margins.
They can and should spend less on anti-piracy measures to become more profitable.
And Disney could be 100% profit, overnight, while paying their actors and writers handsomely, if they just license their content to a streaming service that knows what they are doing.
You mean by making a better service?
I’m not sure where you got the impression this was designed to elicit sympathy. I was just saying that it is incorrect to say they are making a lot of money/the model of financial success in streaming lol
Fair enough. I'm just getting a little tired of our monopolist companies buying every competitor while burning through venture capital and then claiming they need to raise prices to "survive".
Totally