Am 28.12.2023 schrieb John McCue <
jmc...@magnetar.jmcunx.com>:
> Retrograde <fun...@amongus.com.invalid> wrote:
> > Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?
> > From ebooks, to videos and software, the answer is increasingly no
> >
> >
https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/22/opinion_column/?td=rt-3a
> >
> > OPINION What do Amazon, Sony, and Broadcom all have in common? Give
> > up? Each, in their own way, has made it clear that when you buy
> > something from them, you don't actually own it.
>
> Yes, every company wants you to rent as opposed to buy.
> You can see this trend slowly moving into the Auto Industry,
> there was some push back when tried on fossil fuel vehicles
> (BMW), all that did was slow down the trend.
>
> But I think once EVs are in the majority, everyone will be
> "renting". This I blame on the Proprietary Software Industry,
> they are making money had-over-fist due to their License and
> other Industries are looking at them with envy.
They already implement DRM in their combustion engine vehicles.
BMW offers a subscription for certain features.
> I almost wonder with crisper if the for profit hospitals and
> drug companies are heading that way. I just heard about a new
> weight-loss drug you need to take forever. It works great,
> but once you stop it, you gain the weight back.
People simply need to know that changing the food they eat is mostly
enough.
> A pretty sad world we are moving to. Maybe people will smarten
> up and never use rentable products. But I doubt it
I doubt too.
People love buying cheap and fast-living stuff.
Just look at the cloth stores and the people who go there multiple
times a year to buy clothes, wear them one time and give them away.
Or the electronic industry, where people love buying devices that can't
be opened to repair them.