Why bury a good article under such a terrible opening paragraph? Real broadband competition would be an excellent thing, but The notion that it would make net neutrality policies unneeded is laughable. The temptation to make money off of packet preference is too high. It turns the customer into the product.
At the very best, a high-competition broadband market would lead to customers getting to choose between the company that stifles netflix vs the company that stifles hulu.
Apple is going to back down and those standing up for inane demands on pre-review material will be left stuttering. This is a case of one hand of a huge conglomerate not knowing what the other hand is doing.
I expect this to decision by Apple to be retracted soon. Probably a case of two branches of a large corporation working out of sync-- unfortunate, but not uncommon. Hopefully bad press like this will pull them in line.
Of course, Apple's famously arbitrary appstore review process is still problematic. When the only way to force a review is to heap bad publicity on the company, something should change.
The Cable Company Has No Idea How Streaming Actually Works.
Doubtless they would love to get $180/year from people, but that's not how streaming works. What will probably happen is people will pay $15-30, binge on whatever they want to see, then let it drop for several months until they want to binge again, if ever. Instead of roping people into a repeated payment that they don't think about (like Netflix), they've priced themselves up enough that a lot of their potential repeat customers will become occasional customers.
Even if the death toll was higher, 9/11 should NOT be a model for anything. Far more of our own have died-- to say nothing of those our military has killed-- in our flailing reactions to 9/11 than the original attack did.
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At the very best, a high-competition broadband market would lead to customers getting to choose between the company that stifles netflix vs the company that stifles hulu.
No they aren't.
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Of course, Apple's famously arbitrary appstore review process is still problematic. When the only way to force a review is to heap bad publicity on the company, something should change.
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I worry about Steam's market dominance, monopoly potential
I probably should be stockpiling weapons for the GoG insurgents.
Re: Say what?
Doubtless they would love to get $180/year from people, but that's not how streaming works. What will probably happen is people will pay $15-30, binge on whatever they want to see, then let it drop for several months until they want to binge again, if ever. Instead of roping people into a repeated payment that they don't think about (like Netflix), they've priced themselves up enough that a lot of their potential repeat customers will become occasional customers.
Re: Exactly.
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