• Kbobabob@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    More competition should mean lower prices. How is competition diving prices up? Seems rigged.

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      11 months ago

      Same amount of content, more players, outbidding each other, passing on those lovely reverse savings.

      See if it was like music, with a massive back catalogue available to everyone, you’d have four or five services competing on price. But it isn’t. And it will suffer for that.

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      11 months ago

      Streaming services are middle men with exclusivity rights on products. They sell simular but different things, think of them like dealership repair shops, they both fix cars but they fix different cars.