I think I saw Google was partnering with Fubo. That may just mean a marketing partnership though.
Seems to me there are too many competing services, both a la cart like CBS All Access, and aggregators like Youtube TV and Fubo. My sense is that TV has become too high maintenance, and just ditching the whole video addiction starts to seem attractive. It used to be that you decided every 2 years whether to switch your cable provider. Now it’s a monthly exercise. Which service did we sign up with just to watch one 6-part series? Did we forget to cancel it? Is my favorite show gone from Netflix and now I need Disney+? Oh wait, it’s on HBO, do we have a subscription that includes HBO? Was that included with our AT&T cellular plan and we lost it when we went to Verizon? What do we get free now with Verizon? The Super Bowl is on CBS, do we get CBS? Masked Singer is on FOX, do we get FOX? From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 9:08 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Apple News+ 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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