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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap (www.businessinsider.com)
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Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

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[–] kroy 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is REALLY not the case everywhere.

Toss in like 3 streaming services, which is pretty typical coverage for what most people want to watch, you are at cable costs.

And I dunno if you've been in an Uber lately in a larger city in the US, but literally in the last year we've gone from people driving nice clean modern cars, to people driving late 90s/early 00s hoopties that are dirty, stained, and don't have AC, smell like whatever thing was in there before, etc.

[–] aidan 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The issue is paying for three streaming services, one is already way more choice and variety you get with cable. And I don't even just mean the quality of the car, I mean being able to request an Uber on an app and have someone pick you up in a few minutes instead of having to look up a cab companies number then call 30 minutes in advance to talk to a dispatcher and eventually have a taxi show up.

[–] capy_bara 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not true. With every production company spinning up their own stuff, you can easily end up having to subscribe to 2 or three just to watch Star wars (Disney plus) AND Star trek (CBS)

[–] aidan 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having variety doesn't mean having everything. A grocery store has a lot of variety but not everything, similarly cable doesn't have everything. A lot of the biggest shows on Netflix have been Korean, usually US cable doesn't have those.

[–] focusedkiwibear 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

bro we used to have everything without paying out the nose. that's the whole point lmao, way to miss it.

[–] aidan 0 points 1 year ago

Except "we" didn't have everything, Netflix selection was more US focused, that was it.

[–] HankMardukas 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Chicago the Uber experience is far superior to cabs. Can't even find cabs anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

that seems more like a problem of uber killing cabs than cabs killing cabs