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You’ve just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription | Once upon a time there was a company called Miku who wasn’t making quite enough money... (www.theregister.com)
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[–] jj4211 3 points 1 year ago

And even when you do make such a product, there's overwhelming marketing spend against you to make sure no one knows about your product.

It's massively frustrating to just want to make good products but knowing that the wider business context demands that you get recurring revenue or otherwise it is imperative that you fail. Your success would fundamentally undermine rent seeking, and that's a bigger existential threat than any other mere competitor.