If you are under the age of 30, then I think you are all OTT. 'You mean
I have to sit in one spot, and watch something? What Am I, 100?'
I've heard people at church complaining about their college/teenage
children. They have Comcast TV, the Kid will just stream the TV Channel
on their tablet/phone in their room instead of turning the TV on, then
that pushes them over their 1tb monthly allotment. I'm not even sure
that Sports are that big of a draw for the younger audience anymore.
They can stream it with the NFL/MLB/NHL/NBA App, or more likely, go out
to a restaurant/bar with their friends to watch it.
Remember, Youtube TV is a thing (And quite a good interface too), Why
should Google pay to have 2 contracts with content providers, they can
just push everyone to Youtube TV. I almost presumed that they would
include it when they dropped "TV" service.
On 2/5/2020 9:00 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Chuck, I think you had asked about paying for Apple News.
https://gizmodo.com/no-one-wants-to-pay-for-apple-news-1841460018
Sounds like partly the product has some flaws, but mostly the
subscription fatigue problem. People say they hate bundles, but a la
carte also sucks, when you have to pay for dozens of subscriptions to
make your own bundle. Maybe the cable guys were right after all.
They claimed that by putting hundreds of little channels into the
bundle, the cost was spread over a large subscriber base, whereas if
they each had to find enough niche subscribers to pay them a few
dollars, they would cease to exist.
Meanwhile I see Google Fiber is dropping TV, claiming everyone watches
TV over the Internet now and “linear TV” is dead. So now Google Fiber
will just be a broadband ISP. Except they aren’t really doing new
fiber now either. So what are they? Another Google
spaghetti-on-the-wall experiment? A fixed wireless ISP since
acquiring Webpass? Will they be shut down or sold? I don’t quite buy
their explanation that nobody watches cable style TV anymore and
everything is OTT. I think they just don’t want to do it anymore.
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