They also have product duplication. Google Fiber TV vs. YouTube TV.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 9:00:45 AM Subject: [AFMUG] Apple News+ 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. -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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