Why would I stay with Google if my loyalty counts for nothing?
Same goes for Netflix, if you aren't going to reward me being with you from day 1 why should I show you any loyalty?
I will take full advantage of any free trials and cancled at the end switching from one to the other.
Pardon some humor: I laugh when non-tech friends don’t want to pay for ad-free YouTube but they will spend a ton of money every month at Starbucks.
Between lots of quality material on philosophy, beautiful background nature videos, Lex Firdman interviews, online class materials, Dust sci-fi short films, etc., etc. YouTube is probably the best value of anything I spend money for.
Have you looked the change in your grocery bills in that time? Prices are going up everywhere.
It is true that “internal ads” that people place inside of their content seem to be more prevalent. I don’t see other ads on YouTube.
Sure, I'll go get my ad-free YouTube from the competition
that leaves crappy settop boxes
yes
> What if I want to AirPlay? What about Chromecast?
"that leaves crappy settop boxes"
Are you saying Netflix shouldn't raise your rate because you subscribed from day 1?
I don't like cost increases either, but this seems like a weird thing to demand.
I think consumers have just come to expect investors to subsidize forever. It’s had a market distorting effect for too long