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I can’t wait for the advertisers to start dictating the content of the programming to help sell ads. Because that’s coming next. Let’s totally wipe the premium sheen off premium streaming TV.
Thats always been there because the ads are baked in the shows too.
Your daily reminder that by paying for streaming services, you’re receiving a worse product than the alternative.
What is the alternative? Piracy?
buying physical media
Hell yeah
I refuse to pay for any streaming services. I am in the 1% of consumers taking a stand, and have had zero impact in the trajectory of video streaming the entire god damn time.
While there’s a bit of a focus here on what it’d “mean” for Apple to do this … more broadly, which streaming services don’t have ads by now? Prime and Netflix do, I know that much.
Basically it seems the industry has done exactly what cable did IIRC … once they’ve got you by the balls they’ll squeeze you as dry as they can.
Apart from finding a local hardcopy rental shop (I have and am trying to use it as much as possible), or you know, just not watching, “reverting” back to piracy is likely the only way to react here.
The problem is mathematics.
Capitalism requires that profits always increase, but we live on a finite planet, with a finite amount of land, a finite amount of resources, and a finite number of humans… always, eventually, the ONLY option to continue this dichotomy is to squeeze your existing customer base, and extract as much value from them as possible (by devaluing your product). Unfortunately customers do not hold unlimited value, so the house of cards will collapse one way or the other.
Clearly, the only solution is to wage a war on mathematics.
Thats never the ONLY option, its just that the biggest winners in capitalism also make the rules, so they choose to always be the winners
There are other options of course, but those require the proles choosing something besides escapism.
Finally!
Oh no! I hope this doesn’t affect my pirated copies.
step 1: position yourself has high quality, low cost compared to the others
step 2: win awards for programming furthering the high quality of your service
step 3: raise prices
step 4: cancel the shows people raved about
step 5: bring in ads
step 6: ???
Everyone’s reading from the same playbook
It’s probably a McKinsey playbook getting passed around
I only see Apple TV+ as a bonus to the Premium subscription. But if they really fuck it up like this, I will unbundle my subscription and cancel Apple TV+.
Fuck ads!
