I did, because it was convenient. But I learned my lesson, it was quite expensive.
gapbetweenus
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I hate subscription models. After adobe, never again.
I like them both. But also non commercial piracy - or how we used to call it back in the days: sharing, should not be illegal in the first place.
That's why I summarized and asked if that's the case. The hypothesis from the person I replied to, seemed to be that it's due to people believing there is some moral obligation in consumer choice and it extending to apple making questionable, consumer unfriednly decision, therefore they can be mad and rude towards people buying apple products. I can get it.
and the 5 or so companies remaining would compete based on their own original content
I don't see how this is any better, since if you want a specific show produced by a specific company you would still need to subscribe to their service, kind of the same problem we having right now.
Again, I'm not arguing for monopolies in general. But with media it's what customers want - a single service they can access all the media they want, with reasonable prices or a subscription model.
I just wanted to clarify if I understood the point correctly, labeling just shortens the answer.
Musik industry has an extra layer of rights management companies that deal with exactly that issue. So I agree, we could create a legal framework or even an industry self regulating system to work that problem out. But I kind of said that already:
We would need a global overhaul of copyright to work this one out.
Why are you that antagonizing?
A private monopoly isn’t a good thing.
Most times. But for media, people want to have all their media in one place for a cheap price - so far only monopolistic or oligopolistic services were able to provide that. It worked quite well for games and in some form for music (you will often have single right management companies in the music industry - like BMI in USA or GEMA in Germany). But in general, I would agree that monopolies (outside natural monopolies and those should be run by the state) are unfavorable for the customer.
I had an iPhone, but for my use case they are just to expensive. I have a 100 euro android phone that does everything I ever need.
So kind of moral consumerism thing?
I'v been using mac books over a decade so not sure when I need to come back here. I was unhappy with the usbc only mac book pro and considered switching but the m1 fixed issues i had, so I'm here again. Just imagine that there are people out there who don't care to much about repair-ability.
Yet Disney found a pretty creative work around. But that might be a good idea that distribution and production should be separated entities - if well implemented well could solve the problem. Haven't thought about it.