Comment by xmprt
1 day ago
I wonder when we'll reach a tipping point for the subscription hell that the world is moving towards. On the other hand, with the amount of consolidation and difficulty competing (especially with Lina Khan out) I'm not sure if that will ever happen.
At some point I feel like it just has to collapse. The thing I don't really understand is subscriptions like the one in the article, how many of those types of subscriptions are effectively dead, in the sense that yes the customer keeps paying, but aren't actually using the "service" anymore.
The gym revenue model.
The indie / startup space has been so all in on subscription revenue that I guess it's not a huge surprise that the big companies eventually tried to get in on the act.
I tend to think of insufficient competition as a root cause.
And behind that at least in part is the tangle of bad laws, esp. in IP.
Im still waiting for mass-piracy where large parts of the population walk out on the subscription systems leaving the vendors to starve.