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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year ago

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.

www.businessinsider.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 1 year ago
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Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. Namely video streaming, ride-hailing, and cloud computing.
  • @Rexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.de
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    You might want to look up “Enshitification”.

    No surprises here…

    • @CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml
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      It didn’t suddenly go that way. It was always the plan. A loss leader.

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        • urshanabi [he/they]
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          I think the long term commitment is there for everyone and it’s the only way to undeestand how focusing quarter to quarter by executives leads to this result.

          Everyone is committed to profit.

        • @flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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          4•1 year ago

          That’s some bob cringely like dissection - love it!

    • Biezelbob
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      7•1 year ago

      First new word I learned on lemmy a few months back.

      I think of it multiple times a day when browsing my RSS feed

      • @GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
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        Hell yeah to those websites that still publish RSS feeds, though

        • Biezelbob
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          All the websites I follow do, so I am lucky

          But yeah instant +1 if a website offer RSS feeds

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      Chokepoint capitalism moreso than enshittification. Both are terms from Cory Doctorow.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      yeah that’s basically what this

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