Metriacanthosaurus

It’s still surprising to me that some people are impressed obsessed with changing colors, as if this is what home automation is for. 

AppleInsider said:

Defended by AT&T as a necessary trade-off to keep its network running smoothly,

Not if you didn’t sell it in the first place. It only became necessary because you sold capacity you didn’t have. And now these curts just get to settle, and continue forking everyone over. 

SpamSandwich said:

Metriacanthosaurus said:

What is incredibly and pathetically sad is that:

A quick look of the landscape indicates that the day Disney+ launches it will instantly be the best-value streaming service available. 

All of the other services, whether standalone like Netflix and Hulu, or as channels through Apple TV, are all ridiculously overpriced. They all need to come down by 50% of even approach fair market value.

Things cost whatever people are willing to pay for them. If they find the price of their service is out of whack relative to competitors, they’ll reduce it.

If only it worked that way. When it comes to video, it has been repeatedly demonstrated that content owners would rather not sell it than lower the price.

Music piracy practically ended when the content owners got with the program, and today people would much rather pay $10/mon for all the music in the world, then waste time pirating music.

Nothing of any sort has happened to video. Piracy is still rampant, and video content is more expensive than ever.

wonkothesane said:

I am wondering exactly what the challenge was where Apple decided to pull out. 

It wasn't safe or reliable.

The Qi standard is absolute junk, and Apple was trying to make an impossible product while working within it. 

$6.99 is a good price for this service, but somehow I doubt it will stay that way for long. Subscribers will be bait and switched before long.