labbbb@thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 10 months agoWhy were online subscriptions once rare, but now they are everywhere?message-squaremessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down112
arrow-up177arrow-down1message-squareWhy were online subscriptions once rare, but now they are everywhere?labbbb@thelemmy.club to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square39fedilink
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·edit-210 months 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-up1·10 months 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.