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.

[newarkhiphop]

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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Sooner or later, everything old is new again.

We may be at this point in tech, where supposedly revolutionary products are becoming eerily similar to the previous offerings they were supposed to beat.

Take video streaming. In search of better profitability, Netflix, Disney, and other providers have been raising prices. The various bundles are now as annoyingly confusing as cable, and cost basically the same. Somehow, we're also paying to watch ads. How did that happen?

 

[get these nets]

Bells & whistles.

 

[dєvilsblυєs]

I respectfully disagree. We haven't reached that point YET but it does look that's where things could be headed if prices keep increasing

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

Torrents are always free.

 

[Diondon]

Corporate greed will always rear its ugly head

 

[jj23]

Lol that cloud was never cheap tbh. But at enterprise scale it made sense.

Even that isn't making sense anymore.

That cloud investment and maintenence, when you look at the features probably isn't as cheap as they want you to believe.

 

[DEAD7]

We wanted uber/lyft drivers to get paid a "fair" wage ... now here we are.

 

[the cac mamba]

im tired of hearing this shyt about streaming. i never have more than 2 apps at once, Max and then i rotate netflix, hulu, etc. sometimes i just have Max

nobody needs to be paying for 7 apps every month that's just being a bad consumer

 

[Koli_Kat]

It's okay new companies will arrise out of this nonsense

 

[chkmeout]

Energy cost to run these cloud infrastructures fukking things up

 

[JamesJabdi]

They take a loss for a while, corner the market and then jack up the prices.

Last year Uber was losing money but now they making profit. These tech middle men are overestimating their value to the market. Look at AirBnB....once it becomes too crazy with prices people leave that shyt for conventional services, which have been around for years.

 

[Vandelay]

Uber I would pay more than a taxi because it's convenient.

Low-key, it was always known Streaming was going to reach price parity with cable. You can't have thousands of shows for $6.99 a month lol, that math don't even math. Thing is cable didn't have to die a slow death if they just let you pick the exact channels you wanted.

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

im tired of hearing this shyt about streaming. i never have more than 2 apps at once, Max and then i rotate netflix, hulu, etc. sometimes i just have Max

nobody needs to be paying for 7 apps every month that's just being a bad consumer

Just wait until these services kill the month to month model and require 6 month minimums or increase the price for m2m customers to combat this.

 

[Still Benefited]

Them waits aint as long as taxis

As a child we might have to wait 2 hours for a cab depending on the city and location


But add the fact Americans still working 40 hours a week. Despite technology supposedly helping us work more quickly and effeciently

 

[ScottyG]

They take a loss for a while, corner the market and then jack up the prices.

That season 1 wire tactics