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Slight tangent but is it the case that the vast majority of Android apps (like >99%) which ask for superfluous permissions that cannot be denied or revoked, are about to become illegal under GDPR?
MoviePass announced their their new, improved, and unrestricted plans in August. We all knew the $10 a month plan was not going to be profitably by itself. In the last week they have started blocking out specific movies, requiring some users to provide photographic proof of their ticket purchases, and bragged about collecting data outside what is described in their TOS. This is after already locking out customers fro…
Yep... it did sound unfeasible. This is sad, cause it's a matter of pricing. At $20 it's still worth it. In Paris, there is a subscription that lets you access 75% of theaters (2 big chains and most independent theaters) for 20ish euros a month. A normal ticket is 10 euros. This has existing for 10+ years, and they didn't need a tracking app...
I had it back in the days, and the pricepoint was such that you needed to be a heavy user for it to make sense (at least 3 movies a month). Back in the days I was a student ands went to see almost every single movie, so the price made sense.
But at 20$ I would not take moviepass. As an adult, I don't want to commit pr force myself to 3 movies a month.
10$ is the cutoff for me ?(and I believe for most of the busy people), as I'm trying to go once or twice a month, for movies that I would mostly not "pay for".
Also, UGC unlimited is very different as it is managed by the theater chain itself, meaning that only need to pay the marginal cost of the ticket, while MoviePass need to pay the full public price of the ticket for each movie you go watch.
This is why a company "privacy policy" doesn't mean anything - they can change it with no warning or just plain lie about it. The only purpose is to placate their users.
Jokes on them, I've purchased all of my tickets via an Android Emulator and GPS spoofing. I've got it setup such that I text my home box that it's "movie time" and I get a response as soon as the app says the card is loaded.
I would never do it of course, but I'm surprised nobody is doing it.
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I don't think the environment will stay like this for long. Investors in MoviePass will likely not make their money back. Or maybe they'll break even on a sale of assets to some major theater chain, if everyone involved is smart. Afterward, future investors in companies like this will use MoviePass as another example for the fact the times when you could form a business mostly based on collecting user data is over. T…
People going to theaters is on the decline. If MoviePass reverses that trend they will have shown their value. I'm going to wager they're at a tipping point.
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I don't think the environment will stay like this for long. Investors in MoviePass will likely not make their money back. Or maybe they'll break even on a sale of assets to some major theater chain, if everyone involved is smart. Afterward, future investors in companies like this will use MoviePass as another example for the fact the times when you could form a business mostly based on collecting user data is over. T…
People going to theaters is on the decline. If MoviePass reverses that trend they will have shown their value. I'm going to wager they're at a tipping point.
I suspect if they do find some other way, it will be based on some relatively new technology (perhaps already existing, like smartphones, or up-and-coming like some kind of AR), or it would have happened already.
I've been trying to thing of a movie theatre / lan party combo, but haven't been able to come up with anything useful.
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> I fail to see who MoviePass hurt except its own investors. Games on the iOS App Store are generally free (or 99 cents). It is not profitable to recoup your costs by selling the product, because consumers will not pay for an app that costs more money than $1. In order to sustain this environment, the industry has moved to selling data, ads, and other sort of nonsense. Let's suggest that MoviePass successfully "disru…
> because consumers will not pay for an app that costs more money than $1 I'm quite the opposite. If a game on the play store is low priced/free and contain the "in-app"-purchases label I run far away. It's a bit sad as some use this method as a demo with only a "full game" unlock in-app and I won't know. But I've been burned by that in the past, i.e. buy a full version without adds of a game and having the "full ver…
Any app that asks for your location can and will track you. This is so lucrative that Foursquare pivoted the whole company around the concept of location data as a service ( https://enterprise.foursquare.com/ ). Fortunately, you just need to revoke the permission (or don't grant it in the first place) if you want to avoid being tracked. If you're concerned about this, I'd definitely suggest doing a quick check of the…
can't turn those off though on android
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I don't think the environment will stay like this for long. Investors in MoviePass will likely not make their money back. Or maybe they'll break even on a sale of assets to some major theater chain, if everyone involved is smart. Afterward, future investors in companies like this will use MoviePass as another example for the fact the times when you could form a business mostly based on collecting user data is over. T…
MoviePass is majority-owned by Helios & Matheson, a public company (NASDAQ:HMNY).