You get what you pay for.
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How much is suffering worth?
I donāt know about borrowing on Kindle, but Iāve recently started checking out ebooks from my local library. They have a very good selection of ābooks that I want to read but donāt want to spend money on.ā I mean, they probably have books I would want to buy, but I donāt look for those there because I bought them.
Iām always amazed by people on this forumās ability to write off services and technology because it doesnāt meet their hyper niche specifications.
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About a hundred fifty an hour, plus extras, according to the ads in the back of the local paper.
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Iām no longer surprised, but still dismayed, that I seem to be the only person who changes their specifications to match the technology.
I dunno, that seems too broad an allegation. For example, I refuse to use certain services because Iāve been fucked by the DRM.
Should I change my hardware so their software recognizes it as something itāll allow itself to run on, or are my niche specifications too hyper?
Is it too hyper when I harbor a grudge against the whole company for that infraction?
Most of the time I donāt use things because I donāt want to pay for them and Iām like the king of doing without when everyone says I have to.
Iām not really picking on you specifically. Itās a trend I notice among a lot of people. But even you yourself are talking about using Korean MP3 players and talking about not wanting to pay for stuff. Like, if you are a company that is legally obligated to protect the content of others and someone says hey what about person X that is using some foreign possibly-non smart device? Youāre obviously not going to consider that to cater to the 10ās of thousands of people out of billions. Especially when your actual demographic is a fraction of that billions.
AT&T is the leading subscription service and theyāre still only holding around ~100 million your pool of users is relatively small compared to the total demographic. How much are you willing to go out of your way to acquire a few thousand more? Media is a really fickle thing. Youāre either going to change lifestyle (or in 90%+ of the time not change) or not use the service or technology. Itās not bad to not use something, but you should remember that youāre an edge case in development if you choose to stick with your ways.
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I get that people who have korean mp3 players that arenāt very smart (thatās kinda the point actually) arenāt the core audience. The fact that certain things donāt work for me is par for the course.
That said, at itās core the argument that big companies like AT&T are really making here is something like, look if you wanna use your weird setup, too bad, no music, ebooks or, whatever for you.
Is that right or wrong? I have no idea. The free market solution is someone comes along and fills my weird needs in exchange for my money at a fair market price. Thus far, no such luck.