labbbb@thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 years agoWhy were online subscriptions once rare, but now they are everywhere?message-squaremessage-square38linkfedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down112
arrow-up176arrow-down1message-squareWhy were online subscriptions once rare, but now they are everywhere?labbbb@thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square38linkfedilink
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-22 years ago‘recurring revenue streams’. businesses can make more money selling products as services than actual things, and more reliably. take adobe licensing as a perfect example of this enshitification.
minus-squarebionicjoey@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoPart of the problem is that the technology needed to turn increasingly mundane things into subscription services has gotten much cheaper.
‘recurring revenue streams’. businesses can make more money selling products as services than actual things, and more reliably.
take adobe licensing as a perfect example of this enshitification.
Part of the problem is that the technology needed to turn increasingly mundane things into subscription services has gotten much cheaper.