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.

  • t0fr@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Because the service is worse with multiple streaming services?

    Everything is not in the same place, it’s more expensive, and it’s less convenient.

    It used to be cheaper with one. It’s more expensive with multiple.

    Piracy has become more convenient than streaming platforms. As least all the media can be consolidated to one place, one frontend.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, you rarely hear people complain about music streaming apps because they don’t have (as much of) an exlueitivy problem. Apple/Google/Spotify/etc. Are competing on service/cost/features.