Re: MS is doomed... any year now

On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 01:20:58 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:07:10 -0000 (UTC), Simon wrote:
 

Netflix also think is it acceptable.

 
Netflix at least is giving you something new each time you use it.
Microsoft is wanting you to pay over and over for the same old thing.

Perhaps I've been lucky but so far the ad supported Netflix model has had
infrequent ads with one ad per break and a mix of ads. Amazon's FreeVee
will feature the same damn Liberty Mutual and obscure drug ads over and
over every 10 minutes.

Amazon seems to be tweaking their Prime Video ads. The Fallout episodes
had one Samsung ad at the beginning with sort of a PBS announcement.

Of course newspapers and most magazines have always been vehicles for
disseminating ads. I used to subscribe to Motorcycle Consumer News before
it died and it was completely ad free. Beyond not have to leaf through
pages of glossy ads the writers weren't constrained by fear of pissing off
an advertiser.

Consumer Reports is also ad free but their reviews recommend safe, middle
of the road, boring products. I would read them for reviews of products I
know nothing about like cameras but when reading reviews for something I
do know about I realized Plain Vanilla was the flavor of the day. The car
reviews in particular amused me. For the less expensive models, 'you could
buy a used Honda Civic for that', for comparable models, 'the Honda Civic
is a better buy', and for upscale models 'you could buy two Honda Civics
for that money'.