People (including me) complain about monopolies all the time for various reasons. At the same time, I’ve noticed a ton of complaints about the existence of multiple streaming platforms. But isn’t that a good thing at the end of the day? If streaming platforms consolidated into 2-3 companies, there wouldn’t be much stopping them from raising prices even more.

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    4 months ago

    If there was an aggregator of sorts that would charge let’s say even $25 to watch whatever I’d pay happily. That’s what Netflix kinda was before other streaming services started popping up and each asking for a hefty fee.

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      Yeah we need Spotify-like video streaming services already. Let them compete over features and price rather than exclusive content.

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        4 months ago

        And yet even Spotify has started having exclusive content in the form of certain podcasts. Only a matter of time before they do it with music too.

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      I would be happy to use a service that auto subscribes for a month when I play content but also auto cancels renewal.

      I’m happy to pay for them when I use them but if I don’t happen to use one for a month it would be great to skip that bill.

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      Id even settle for a “master” app that just lets me log all my accounts into it and lets me search for whatever I want and if it isnt on something I have tells me what service its on.

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        You may already have this. FireStick does this, Apple TV so does this, I’m pretty sure Roku does this …… my problem is the opposite: I want to search only the content accessible with what I already pay. I’m tired of search being an upsell