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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml 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 ☆@lemmy.ml 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.
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    They’ve missed AirBNB and the likes.

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      That is a lower circle of hell.

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    You might want to look up “Enshitification”.

    No surprises here…

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      It didn’t suddenly go that way. It was always the plan. A loss leader.

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        deleted by creator

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

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

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

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

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        Hell yeah to those websites that still publish RSS feeds, though

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          All the websites I follow do, so I am lucky

          But yeah instant +1 if a website offer RSS feeds

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      yeah that’s basically what this

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    Isn’t that how silicon valley worked for years even within itself? Run a loss for long enough until you’ve overtaken the market and then raise prices when the competition has lost their edge.

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      That’s what China is trying to do with their EVs in other markets right now too as another example.

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        Yet you still see people grumbling about how restrictions on chinese EV imports are just “American/Western Imperialism”, since people apparently don’t understand how valueable domestic production is

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          It’s because the USA floods countries with cheap goods all the time and then cries foul when someone else does it. It’s pure hypocrisy.

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            What cheap goods does the US produce and flood other countries with? Even in the US, most of our products are made in China.

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              US Agricultural goods are heavily subsidized and, thanks to NAFTA, flooded Mexico’s markets and destroyed farmers’ livelihoods.

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              Well, Facebook, google spring to mind. They are both cheap for the consumer and undermine local competition. Digital goods can be dumped too.

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    Turns out making everything into a subscription service doesn’t make it better, it just makes it worse.

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    Surprise we got scammed again.

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    next up: ai is 100x more expensive than people

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      Well it may not be accurate or effective, but at least it’s expensive.

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        Hahaha

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    Cloud was never supposed to be “cheap”. It has always been a utility based model where you pay for how much you use it. The problem is, way too many people used is as a 1:1 replacement without rearchitecting their workloads, so of course it’s gonna be more expensive.

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      Not just that, but the big value proposition was supposed be that you wouldn’t need sysadmins. In practice, these services are so complex that you need a dedicated skill set to use them, except now it’s specific skills for each provider that aren’t directly transferable.

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        Which means you can sell support in addition to the service itself. Mission accomplished!

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          Not to mention the benefits of having vendor lock in, since migrating to a different service becomes prohibitively expensive.

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    Uber was always more expensive then a taxi, at least in NYC/London. It was originally marketed as a “luxury” transportation option. The cloud was always ~2x more Operation Expenses with the value proposition that you didn’t have any Capital Expenses so if you were a startup it was easier to sell-out and get started with lower risk. Streaming is still cheaper then cable, but it is getting shittier.

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      Streaming is still cheaper than cable

      That really depends on where you live. With my current provider here in the Netherlands, I would be paying 12.50 euros extra for TV.

      Netflix standard is already more expensive than that at 13.99.

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    Long live plex, set sails

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      Jellyfin FTW! Free for all.

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    A primary purpose of technology under capitalism is the violent control of people and the planet. Any actual progress is an unwanted side effect.

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    I poem you.

    Stremio, Torrentio, Realdebrid, Shieldtv.

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      I use Stremio which has tbs torrentio plugin. But what are the others?

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        Realdebrid serves torrents instantly from torrentio at 3 bucks a month. Nvidia shieldtv Pro is the best media steamer (*in my opinion which is probably worthless). I had Apple TV’s running Stremio, but it was a pain in the butt syncing, so I gave those away.

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    Wait till the CFOs start tallying up the GenAI bills…

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    I’ve been adding a bunch of torrent-focused features to both lemmy-ui and jerboa this week, the next releases of both should have them.

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      Oh that’s very exciting!

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    capitalism.jpeg

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    Is there a reasonable explanation for this or is it plain greed? In my book, technology gets always cheaper, but scalability is also always a concern.

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      It’s just greed. Companies exist to create profit for their shareholders, any social value they produce in the process is strictly incidental.

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        That’s not “greed”. It’s capitalism.

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          Sure, capitalism is a system that rewards greed and egoism ensuring that psychopaths rise to the top of the society.

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            Yawn.

            Or do you think such people don’t rise to the top in socialist systems?

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              Yeah, I think people who rise to the top are products of selection pressures they’re exposed to, and capitalism selects for the entirely wrong things. You’re just another victim of capitalist realism bud.

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          You said greed twice. Or you said capitalism twice.

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