cgWerks

applebynature said:

cgWerks said:

Oh my, I fear this will just bolster this “Apple’s Ruin” division in power position within the company.

What???

This division is making money, but is eroding many of Apple’s ideals and core strengths. As they have more financial success, they’ll get more power to do their things, even if in opposition to other divisions of the company (this is how big companies work, especially w/o an ideologically principled person at the helm, who focuses on money/efficiency).

For, example, we’ve seen the OS UIs be increasingly intruded by advertising and content-pushes. Services drive decisions about what apps can do by default vs how much money can be made if they are more limited. This will eventually (if not already) impact the product design directions at the hardware level.

They must have more data than just username/password and IP address. It seems like they’d have some kind of device info, and likely a bunch of other data. Couldn’t the actual app even generate some kind of unique ID?

A simple solution would just be to have a base price, and then charge a bit more for each additional ‘viewer’ added to the plan. Then whatever that number is, is the max simultaneous streams associated with that account. Who cares where they are or who they are? They could all be at the same house, or each in a different city. A family of 5 could pick a 3x subscription, and maybe they’d be fine if all 5 couldn’t be on at once, while another family would buy 5x.

Are they just making this way too hard?

A lot of these high-profile ‘mistakes’ lately. First PayPal, now this.
I wonder - if like PayPal - they’ll just stuff it back in once the public excitement dies down?

I guess I could apply. I’m pretty good with CAD and wouldn’t do anything as bad as the Butterfly Keyboard. <grin>

Oh my, I fear this will just bolster this “Apple’s Ruin” division in power position within the company.