Nobody could have seen this coming.

People trapped at home downloaded more stuff, news at 11.

The reason people pirate more is because it’s easier than the alternative. Subscription culture can get fucked.

Dude. We know. Like 40% of us don’t even vote. We’re fucked little guy.

Aww why so sad buddy do you need a hug?

Oh i didn’t know that! That does count.

Ole Bezos is jealous he doesn’t have his own social media platform.

oh no, this is the first im hearing about this.

I’m never buying those pants again.

I think a John Deere letter may be different.

“Hello, ChatGPT. if you don’t mind could you tell us about Tampon Tim?”

OMG we need to stop. It’s gotten too real now. The only saving graces are that this is a day old post on Lemmy and so venture capitalists are unlikely to still see it.

But damned if I don’t think Anker could make something out of this.

You start at $30 which is plenty for the product. Hell the single yearly supply shouldn’t cost that much. Then overtime you slowly increase and changed rates for new subscribers.

Eventually you’ll have to implement location locks - can’t ship cables to more than one addresss. Plus you really don’t want people sharing or giving out cables to friends - so maybe the cables need to be smart and somehow phone home?

That would be nice cause then we could capture some user data and maybe target some advertising

It’s just unoriginal thinking. What does every business want? Lots of cash that comes in automatically on a known schedule. How can we do that? Have our customers subscribe. What will they subscribe for? Hmm lifetime speakers? Lifetime cable replacement?

Side note business idea: subscription usb power bricks. We send you a variety of cables that work for everything. If one breaks we send you another. $30/yr

Never worry about broken cables again!

Best to throw that away. Good job keeping it from affecting the performance of your pc.

Speculation on my part but i think it’s the same thing as Boeing really. They didn’t have any real competition for so long and they started cutting out the engineers who innovated to improve stock price.

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Is it almost our collective birthday?

Uh, no. Consumers don’t care at all. Executives and marketing folks are the ones that have decided that it has to be in there.

Yes

The state of politics in our country is saddening.