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Re:Reverse engineering yet another eBook format by brutusborn on Sunday December 25, 2022 @11:54PM (#34134721)
Yeah definitely, the pendulum swings based on consumer satisfaction. Hopefully streaming can be federated in some way and we can get past this phase.
Re:Reverse engineering yet another eBook format by midoridensha on Monday December 26, 2022 @12:57AM (#34135040)
I kinda doubt it: doing so would decrease profits, because you wouldn't, for instance, be able to pay a tiny amount to just watch one show on Disney+ instead of having to buy a full subscription.

Instead, it's going to be like cable TV and landline telephone service: something new will come along to attract people's attention, and they'll just keep pissing customers off, and as more and more leave, the service will get worse and worse, and the prices higher and higher, to take advantage of the suckers who refuse to leave, until the whole thing finally implodes.