so one of the great #Mac news websites #Macsurfer has closed down. It’s a real shame, BUT it was inevitable when they revealed their pricing.
Every time I see a website / podcast network membership pricing scheme, it’s always nuts, by a whole digit.
#Subscriptions
My whole email, web hosting, domain rego etc, works out at about AU$10/month. That’s my entire online infrastructure - a single news website suggests it should be worth AU$4/month to me?
#Subscriptions
Netflix, with all of its content, much of which they actually produce is AU$9/month.
Is *one* #Mac specific website worth half as much as *netflix*?
This is what constantly bugs me about subscription services / apps etc - they all seem to be in this bubble…
#Subscriptions
where everyone only has to pay for them and them alone.
“oh but it’s only the price of a coffee” right, but suddenly it’s “oh but it’s only like buying 3 extra coffees a day”
#Subscriptions
because every app developer seems to think programming should give them a nice middle-class lifestyle.
Guess what - maybe app development *isn’t* destined to be a well paid career. Maybe the best you can hope for, is minimum wage.
#Subscriptions
Go ask a fine artist how well they’re paid. Are we all demanding to put cameras in our works to spy on you in your homes in order to fund ourselves. Are we demanding you pay a subscription for the painting you’ve put on your wall.
#Subscriptions
If your business model is “squeeze blood from a stone”, the results are inevitable, and stones are becoming more common than sponges if you look at societal income shifts.
“but you own a ~thousand $ phone” Yeah, so I don’t have money for subscriptions.
#Subscriptions
If you’re in apps or content, complain about the hardware vendors soaking up all the free money, rather than consumers being too “cheap”.
Comics folks know this one - convention entry prices get higher and higher, where’s the money left to pay for indy books?
#Subscriptions
#Apple pundit logic “it’s OK for Apple to only sell expensive phones, because they’re a premium hardware company.”
Also Apple pundit logic “consumers are cheap, because they won’t buy $20 apps for their phone.”
Reminder: Profit is the waste heat in an economy.
#Subscriptions
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