Will consumer economics have an impact on RealNetworks?

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Subscriptions, ah, yes...

I remember back in the stone age when cable was born. Then it was, well, yes you are paying for it but NO COMMERCIALS, WOW!

Years have passed and in most markets not only are you paying monthly, but there are programs everywhere on every cable station AND you are paying EVEN FOR INFO-MERCIALS. You are paying for THEM to ADVERTISE to YOU, DAH, how stupid.

I often hear conversations about how cable sucks and how people feel helpless. I remind them of the fact that they can just turn it off. If enough people turn it off things will change.

So as far as I am concerned all companies that work on subscription like cable, XM radio, or companies that provide software as a service, operating in the cloud etc. etc. can put it where the sun doesn't shine.

I dislike this "model" so much that I am learning how to use LINUX because Microsoft and even Apple are moving to this model and I can cut them loose.

I have a unique perspective since I have worked at companies like Microsoft and I will be damned if I will be some cash cow for all those lazy, fat ass programmers etc. and allow these big companies to bleed off my cash.

I am not addicted to email, TV, radio etc. so if this is the wave of the future I will just "cut the wire" and read more, take more walks, etc. etc. I am old enough to remember a day when there wasn't any such thing as TV or computers and radio was a hour or two of entertainment in the evening.

Feel free to pass this on, I suspect there are many people like me and the egg heads who live in their plugged in incestuous little world haven't figured this out yet.

Posted by: mikifinaz1@...   Posted on: 08/01/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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