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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)

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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::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

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[–] ThickQuiveringTip@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Exactly right! While I think companies like Uber and Netflix did price things like Taxis and Cable out of business unethically, I don't want to go back to those days. I remember having to try to catch a Taxi and waiting over an hour and a half in the cold. They would ask where I was going and just drive off. Cable was full of scummy tactics and slowly introduced ads until it was just basically paying to watch ads. I don't want to go back to that shit. But Uber and the like should have been honest about what the pricing structure would have been from the get go.

[–] golamas1999@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The business practices of Uber and Netflix are also unethical but in a different way. Uber pays basically nothing. Netflix as well as streaming pays very little to actors/writers/film crew.

[–] ThickQuiveringTip@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Oh, for sure! Corporate greed exceeds new levels year on year! To think they raise interest rates to curb inflation, but then banks and most other companies are posting record profits without any social return is disgusting.

[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The term for this is Platform Capitalism

[–] severien@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But Uber and the like should have been honest about what the pricing structure would have been from the get go.

Pricing structure will be adjusted based on the market conditions. Applies to any company at any time.

[–] ThickQuiveringTip@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not the same situation. They purposely went low to price out the competition for years, accepting losses until the competition hopefully didn't exist or had everyone semi dependent on them. This is not a supply/demand situation or increase with inflation. This is creating market dependency until you can increase your cost to what you want it to be by obliterating competition.

[–] severien@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

That's just normal price dumping.