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Still made about the removal of the headphone socket though...
Nokia, Fairphone Androids have 3.5mm headphone sockets still btw.
As does Sony
Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
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Streaming just came full cycle to traditional TV broadcasting. An impressive feat of disrupting an industry right there.
You need a streaming aggregator for the cycle to be complete.
Seeing the writing on the wall that we could be headed back to the cable TV era, I had a hairbrained idea (haha- really just a name) back in like 2011/12, that would aggregate the three big streaming platform's libraries in a single interface. called: HuFlixPrime.
My idea to get cooperation and buy-in across the streaming providers was to try and "nudge" customers to subscribe and bundle competing services by directly showing all programming that could be accessed in one interface. Ideally streaming and account management and signup would be done through this single clearing house. Perhaps an incentive if all three services were active.
Obviously would be fraught with issues, and I could never really see any cooperation like that working. but I liked the name...
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Even if this were the case (it's not), there's still a time cost - I have to find the brand without the logo that's the same quality. I buy athletic shorts maybe once every 2-3 years almost always on Black Friday. I know Nike shorts will be high quality, and I know they'll fit. Wading through the many non-logo brands, trying them on, returning the ones that are bad, etc. might take me several hours to save tens of do…
If you take the time to understand what makes a quality shoe, it will save you time and money and embarrassment (like, you wouldn't be caught dead wearing Common Projects and would be embarrassed for someone wearing them). No need to rely on logos, which is weakly correlated to quality. Check this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAnvil
I buy whatever sneakers are currently on sale at Costco when I need new ones. There is usually a logo, I don’t think anyone looks at me askance.
Your solution is to spend hours upon hours of research and spend more money on a product to avoid a logo, which most people actually don’t ever notice or care about.
Why would someone be embarrassed about common projects?
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#17420 years ago, Steam was the reason I stopped pirating games. Netflix et al had the same effect for TV & movies. Today, I subscribe to 5 different streaming services, and occasionally do a month of various “channels” in those apps. I want to pay for content, but the camels back is about to break. I truly don’t want to set sails again, but the bullshit has been adding up for a while. Ads is where I draw the line.
You can still buy almost everything from Prime/iTunes/Blu Ray without ads.
unless you have a DRM'less file it's still renting
you own nothing
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Find me an unbranded pair of basketball shorts that will last 10 years, have consistent sizing, and cost less than $20 at an outlet and I’ll gladly buy them. I could gamble on “YAWHOHOMELIFE Men's Running Workout Shorts Training Gym Athletic Joggers Sweat Short Pants Quick Dry Breathable with Zip Pockets”, or pay like $5 more for a little white embroidered check mark and the aforementioned benefits without needing to…
What I've found is that "serious" equipment tends to have subdued branding, or at least has some options like that. I have a pair of basketball shorts that are still going strong after something like 12 years. They're Nike, but the logo is black on black, so barely visible if you don't look for it. Ditto for the basketball shoes. The logo is barely visible since it's the same color as the shoe. The shoes are somewhat…
Cycling gear goes the opposite direction. Decathlon is great, but they have a weird fetish for a really intense shade of blue.
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You have "content" in quotes, but during the actors and writers strike, there isn't even "content"
The business of media distribution drives us to talk about the stories we enjoy engaging with as though they are toiletries we're restocking from the store. I replaced my empty box of tissue with more "content," yay! I put that in quotes because I actually dislike the viewpoint that term comes from. I watch stories and performances, think on them, talk about them, and sometimes come back to them. I don't consume cont…
> I don't consume content, as if it were used up after I watch it once.
You may be in a minority here, many people I know (like my wife) very rarely will go back to something when they're done with it. Most people are on the lookout for something new to keep them entertained, so I would definitely argue that they are in fact consuming media.
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If you take the time to understand what makes a quality shoe, it will save you time and money and embarrassment (like, you wouldn't be caught dead wearing Common Projects and would be embarrassed for someone wearing them). No need to rely on logos, which is weakly correlated to quality. Check this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAnvil
> you wouldn't be caught dead wearing Common Projects and would be embarrassed for someone wearing them Y'know, you seem more focused on logos and their importance than anybody else here. I would never been embarrassed for someone wearing a certain kind of shoe. I'm not judging people based on logos, since what brand of shoe someone else is wearing has absolutely no impact on my life. For athletic shoes, I wear Mizun…
Well sure, they have identified that people wearing logos is strange and they don’t like it. Why wouldn’t they be more focused on logos than someone who hasn’t noticed this? It is kind of hard to notice given how common it is, and I think one has to be at least slightly detached from the zeitgeist to really notice the strangeness.
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#178They've already killed Prime Video in the last year. I cancelled my Amazon Prime subscription yesterday because: - 1-day delivery is not a thing anymore - Prime Video used to be my favorite streaming service, now it sucks. Every time I want to watch something, I have to pay an additional subscription, and it's way too hard to find what's actually included - it's too expensive for the value it provides (70€). Actually…
1 day delivery is still going for most products in the UK
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#179Imagine a world where a guy worth over 150 billion dollars who owns a company worth over a trillion dollars and has a quasi-monopoly over the internet is in such desperate need of more money to the point where he's going to put advertising on his video platform, even though people already pay for the platform. Instead of raising prices moderately, or putting better content on the platform, they decide to instead put…
If he'd stopped when he had enough, I wouldn't be able to order stuff at 23:00 and have it delivered at 07:00.
If Musk had stopped when he had enough, I won't be able to take weekend vacations to orbital hotels in my lifetime.
Enough money to live comfortably is just one goal; building cool things is another orthogonal one.
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I buy Nike running shoes because they are cheap, durable and comfortable, I don't actually use the to run. The other obvious answer to this question is "because they are status symbols", for some people anyway.
Shoes, sure, because they do make great running shoes, and I suppose - forgive me - if one doesn't care about making a good visual impression, they are quite comfortable for everyday wear. I'm more confused by the visors and shirts and such. Any ostensible status garnered by being an ad is immediately overbalanced by the questionable taste and decisions of its wearer.
You seem to be going to great lengths to avoid confronting the fact that most people simply don't care about logos, or, if they do, are doing it to fit in with whatever crowd they're a part of.