Why everything is a subscription
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Selling a gadget isn’t enough anymore. Creators need to find a way to keep revenue coming in, even after they sell a device. Companies like Peloton sell the hardware, but also a service to go along with it. Ashley Carman reports on recurring revenue and subscription services, and why they might be the key to keeping hardware businesses afloat.
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What’s your favorite subscription service?
f–k this BS… biggest scam in history.
Capitalist hellscape be like, “why do the poors need to OWN things when they could just rent it, forever, from us 💵💵💵”
I don’t like subscription services, I like to own my own products.
Everything is a subscription now. In future if I want to use my bathroom I’m going to have to pay subscription for it. It’s getting ridiculous.
I’m going to give a example, because of work and other stuff, it took me an entire year to finish the wither 3, I would I kip paying for an entire year of subscription to play this one game that in the end I don’t even own. A lot people play the same games, multi-player games, for an entire year or more, I would they pay a subscription to play the same games for a entire year, for games they don’t own.
I not interested on paying subscription for everything I want to do. Especially for games.
The only subscription tipe service I would accept is movies and series, because movies and series take just a few hours of your time and it can show you movies and series that you can like but you wouldn’t know if it wasn’t for this services, but even this types of streaming service are getting ridiculous with the amount of services there are now, and it’s going to get worse.
The only future I see, especially after the pandemic where many people lost part of there income if not all of it, is one where YouTube and piracy take center stage and many of all types of streaming services will end up in failure.
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If your company is making more and more millions upon millions per year then your charging people too much! Places can do 5.99 per month and still make millions but they all just want “growth ..revenue…investers happy”…so they charge 15.99 per month and most average people find that just adds up too much and it puts us off, we have food and rent to pay not your 15.99 per month dragging on us
I seen a cool ad on my Insta that can filter retro style imagery and video. Looked legit ! So I found in on the app market thinking it’ll be like 2.99 or a dollar. But it was “free” as soon as I download it. It requires a damn subscription!! Monthly like damn I would have just paid 5 dollars for it. I hate subscriptions for stuff like that.
Rich people with too much money. I do pour over coffee, costs about 25 cents. I have a mtb. My routine is free and invigorating. My cell keeps track of where I am, how many steps etc.
I know ppl need to make money, but at some point customers will get fed up with this business model and find other altternatives. I like owning stuff not renting it, everybody does. We’re going to end up having to rent our very existence pretty soon.
What about subscription service that allows access to all existing subscriptions for reasonable price like 29.99£ per month? I’ll would be up for it. Much simpler model and what a great customer journey (hate that expression). Right? Corporations would love it. After all its all about customers experience.
YES, OMG, I CANT WAIT TO OWN NOTHING!!!
Why am I getting a strong gut feeling that she likes him?
We live in a society
It would be interesting to see what they think of peleton now.
aah, capitalism.
Everyone loves to hate subscription services. The truth though is that in most cases people are just not actually ready to pay the prices that would have to be charged upfront to make the alternative business model sustainable. Many forget you have to cover not only the service operation costs but also the customer acquisition cost, customer service cost, cost of free trials, and in most cases continuing development costs (competition never sleeps). Sure, there are companies with monopolies that grossly overcharge. But many business offerings just simply wouldn’t survive as pay-once products. People vote with their wallets, and despite the publicly expressed sentiment in many cases they simply prefer the monthly model.
Bruh someday I’m not even gonna be able to buy a mf microwave without a subscription, what is this country coming to
I have ZERO subscriptions and I’m gonna keep it that way. I went from Adobe over to affinity for all my graphic design once adobe forced a subscription model. One off payment. You own the program. And it’s every bit as competent.
Drop you(conglomerates, politicians) off, after, i outsource parents’ tech requirements. In the mean time, outsource hackers and office firewall and … to governments and conglomerates. Make them defend(by hacking themselves), talk to old-folks, then laugh at them for being stupid, in the first place.
How cool are 30+ year olds guys that look like 15 year old skateboarder
Ask yourself… is it necessary to subscribe to said product.
And ask yourself why they deserve your money more than yourself
What about baby toys? I doubt you could put those in a subscription. What they gonna do, take slobbery toys back?
How about Apple devices that break down every 2 years (if you’re lucky) with no opportunity to repair, that you need to buy a new one? How about electrical appliances that fails every 3 years?? Those are essentially a subscription service.
My dad was a construction worker and he never got a monthly subscription for the driveways and stuff he made. I think software companies are abusing their position on our system.