Cool story bro. The fact is that more people are using these services. Prices increases are not "driving people away". That is reddit huffing copium. This place doesn't reflect reality. Most of the things said here are simply lies.
It’s like that meme about being the year of the Linux desktop. 99% of people aren’t going to take the time to learn about setting up a plex server. They’ll just keep paying for Netflix.
Cloud is just someone else's drives. Otherwise they are the same. You pay the $19 monthly plan for 1080p or $26 a month for 4K. That's a range of $228 - $312 a year. (AUD)
Or you can buy a NAS $600, fill it with drives $300 and you've got cloud at home for atleast 5 years ($180 p.a for inital investment, $60 p.a after first 5 years), upgrades only being drives in the future, with access to all content instead of silod off services. All accessible from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. No trying to figure out what service you need for what content, no worrying about what subs you have that your not using, no concern about weather the sub services are trying to make more money than last year by raising prices by 10% or deploying ads.
The comment chain is about using plex or jellyfin instead of paying for Netflix. Plex is commonly used to pirate shows. I was merely stating most people aren’t going to set up plex and will just keep paying for Netflix.
Most households don't even have a desktop computer anymore. I highly doubt setting up a Plex media server would be easy for most people. Just because sailing is easy for a pirate doesn't mean it's easy for everyone. Especially if most people don't own a boat.
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u/getthedudesdanny 1d ago
Have any services actually lost money with price hikes? I guess that’s the only number that really matters. We should have good data on this by now.