The point of Netflix was to bring a bunch of different content together for convenience. Now it just is going back to being crazy. And no doubt there’ll be a company who offers a single plan to sub to all of then
Would you rather have a monopoly?
Honestly I'm not a fan of how things are either, especially if you're not from the US and the selection of these platforms is very limited. But it's better than a monopolistic service.
It would be higher than it is now, but I doubt it would get ridiculous otherwise people would unsubscribe.
However, the way to boil a frog is to raise the heat slowly
@creativedragonbaby Exactly! The price would be good at first but would get to a cable level of ridiculous in a few years. In my opinion a good way to solve this would be for these services to offer buying or digitally renting individual movies without the need for a subscription. That way, if you want to watch let's say one Disney movie but don't want to subscribe to the whole thing, you can buy/rent it and then never visit Disney+ again. I think Google Play Movies does something like that?
@jd1984 Maybe from a practical standpoint but tbh I'm against monopolies as a concept because of what they have the ability to become. Ironically I'm using Google as a good and bad example in the same thread, but look at Google and their many controversies, from their search engine skewing searches, their phones tracking you, listening to every word you say and recording it... monopolies aren't your friends. In fact big corporations in general aren't your friends. If you're getting something from a corporation for what seems to be a really good price, it's either because you're getting screwed in ways you don't realize, for example your data being sold, or you're contributing to a production chain in which someone else gets screwed, like the workers in third world factories, many of whom are children.
Honestly I'm not a fan of how things are either, especially if you're not from the US and the selection of these platforms is very limited. But it's better than a monopolistic service.
However, the way to boil a frog is to raise the heat slowly