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.

[Tribal Outkast]

Just let people continue to lie to themselves

 

[levitate]

Nah, this is nothing like trash ass cable.

 

[DonB90]

1) Build walkable communities, invest in mass transit

Communist

 

[JT-Money]

It’s like they don’t learn… lol Our CIO just said we are going to invest heavily into AI. I’m like has AI even proved to be useful yet in the way you think it will or have you just bought into the hype..


* remembers the self driving car hype a few years ago .*

My company has been laying off people the last couple of months. But just couldn't resist those AI headlines in the news. Now layoffs are off the table and the training budget has opened backup. All that belt tightening talk lasted all of about 6 months.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Big Corp Babble.

Yeah if you have every streaming service imaginable it will cost you but who does that

I got Netflix ($20)
HBO Max through AT&T(Free)
Amazon (Through Prime that I would pay for anyways)
Hulu ($5 on student discount)

That’s it. Not to mention if I just want to binge watch a hit show on Apple or something I can just subscribe for a month and cancel. Cancelling and reupping is not something you can do on the fly with traditional cable.

So essentially $25 to watch all but Hulu(which I rarely use) ad free and get to watch when I want, what I want, where I want, for a quarter of the price of traditional cable. The article is disingenuous.

A lot of these Streaming Services aren’t super profitable (Peacock, Paramount) and will most likely end up licensing their stuff to a big player eventually. Yeah that means Netflix and Disney will squeeze a couple more dollars out of their subscription price every couple years but they ain’t going to be reaching cable prices anytime soon.

You’re talking about getting free services through phone companies and stuff though lol. I get Hulu free and a free year of Paramount through T-Mobile . They’re going to stop it eventually because I know they want to make money. These streaming services are begging people to sign now. I got a year all access to Peacock for 20 dollars that’s going to run out soon. I’m not re-upping because Peacock ain’t worth it. We are not much better off without cable than we are with it.. And I got apple for 10 a month, these fools stay yanking songs off the platform smh. These fools yanked PM Dawn’s most famous song off that shyt. That really pissed me off for some reason lol

 

[Marlow Stanfield]

 

[Sonny Bonds]

Uber picks me up every time. Can’t say the same for NYC taxis when you’re a breh.

 

[AAKing23]

Piracy is the way

 

[Digital Omen]

shyt I must be the only one login trading, CC/phone benefit, promo deal trial shyt then
I pay for Hulu and Prime, the rest are shyt I got from companies and other people.
Gave a homegirl the Hulu login, she gave me Paramount. T-Mobile gave me Netflix and Apple. Peacock thru Amex.

 

[BlackJesus]

Is cable cheaper than subscribing to all the streaming services combined? Sure, but who the fuq is doing that? Most choose 2-3 and its way cheaper than Cable.

The problem is the prices will continue rising, to the point where 2-3 services will eventually cost the same as cable

 

[West Coast Avenger]

Pirating was always the way
If you didn’t know well too bad you fell for the okie doke

Real-Debrid for the win....lol @ paying for all of those streaming services....I just pay for Real-Debrid and watch anything I want....

 

[Bugzbunny129]

Uber is so trash. If you dont live in a city, its useless. 25 bucks to go 10 miles. My boy uses it for work everyday. 10 min car ride. 25 bucks. Working 4 hrs a day to pay ubers lmao

Only city im usually in is nyc. Same length of ride by taxi is 10$. Used to catch one if i was running late from port authority up town.

 

[Tony D'Amato]

Left out bitcoin and nfts

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

The cloud has never been cheap. You would have found that out quick the day you run any resource intensive tasks. It does have its uses. I see it as a way for the company to shift responsibilities of maintenance to a 3rd party. Also it came down to marketing. Folks with millions of dollar to play with flooded the tech world about how great it was. And people bought into it. Lesson here is work on your marketing. With great marketing you can sell a turd.

its good for storage not for processing

 

[nairdas]

Ubers ARE NOT just as expensive as taxis. I took a taxi to work one time and that shyt was 35 dollars. An Uber has never been more than 17 dollars to get to my job.