Cable cutting rant
This thing where every company involved makes it as unclear as possible what the alternatives to Cable TV are, seems a bit weird.
You'd think someone who serves to make a profit from people doing it, would make it nice and simple. But no!
Between the cable company, the internet company (who is in my case also the cable company!), the streaming providers, and the mysterious extra layers like YouTube TV / Chromecast / Apple TV / Lord Knows, it's a life's work just to figure out how to be able to like watch Wimbledon and how much it will cost...
Cable cutting rant
Imagine wanting to buy, like, an orange, and you find someone who says "yes, of course you can use our service to get an orange! It's just $0.50, and we support most of the popular orange suppliers!".
"What do you mean, orange suppliers? Aren't you an orange supplier?"
"Haha, no, we are an orange service! You have to sign up with an orange supplier, and then you can get oranges from that supplier through our service."
"Oh, you mean like a specific grower?"
"Haha, no, the growers sell their oranges to the distributors, who sell them to the supplier, who sell them to us, and we give them to you, through Doordash or Grubhub!"
"Wait, you don't deliver them, either?"
"Nono..."
And so on.
Cable cutting rant
@lucifargundam And there are a million existing long-term contracts in place, methinks.
Cable cutting rant
don't forget benefits, lost time for transition between links in the supply chain...
Cable cutting rant
@ceoln
Yuuuup. Now imagine the profits if you cut all the middlemen. But that's a lot of overhead.