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The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices

arstechnica.com The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices

Op-ed: Apps promised to free us from ad-supported subscription bundles. Oops!

The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices

cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/1072752

For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn't want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in.

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  • Sure and with that trade off I have a rock solid experience with no issues at all.

    Sometimes you get tired of android and the jank and want shit that just works so you can get on with your day and just focus on other things.

    • Apple is a huge mess tbh, you have NOT done tech support for Apple stuff, it's a pain. Android, otoh, is a breeze. I've always found Apple stuff jankier.

      • I haven't needed to tech support on any of my Apple stuff in the entire time I've owned them, I have at home both a Linux server and a Mac mini running as a headless server. Guess how many times I've had to fix the Mac mini 0.

        My iPhone I've had 0 issues with and my M2 Air which I use for work has had 0 issues.

        I don't really see a situation where the sorting out a mac would be troublesome it's pretty much all simple as hell.

        Oh and fun fact, I have done tech support for apple stuff on a daily basis as part of my job as a store manager of a retail tech store and I'm constantly thrown problems from Android/iOS Devcies as well as MacOS, Linux & Windows Devices and guess which ones give me the most problems.

        • Sorting out a Mac is troublesome. Errors that give you no information, lack of easy access to advanced utilities, and of course, it bring all in the name of "It Just Works! (TM)". I found myself cursing at a Mac, but never had on literally any other operating system ever. Even TempleOS is easier to troubleshoot.

          Errors on every major OS:

          Windows: The application could not start because of missing dll X (0xb). Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.
Linux: Could not find libfluidsynth.so.1. Reason: No such file or directory!
macOS: Could not connect to this network.
Android: App not installed. There's also another "There was a problem parsing the package" which either means it's corrupted or your phone is from the Stone Age.
iOS: Literally reboots your iPhoney every 3 minutes because the fucking microphone is broken.

          Now let's see what those errors tell me.

          Windows: A DLL is missing. Either it got corrupted or the user fucked up.
Linux: App is linking against a super old library. Update the app or compile it to use a newer library.
macOS: LITERALLY NOTHING. Super vague, but at least the Android one below only appears when you are sideloading (you should know what you're doing)
Android: While the error itself is vague, it usually means "no space left" or "bad signature". Again, if you see this error, you should know what you're doing.
iOS: I couldn't tell unless I knew the mic was broken.

          Guess how many times my Dad had trouble with Bluetooth on macOS. More than I can count, to the point of needing to steal my mic from me.

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