I mean it makes sense. Both M$ and Apple (and Google with vanilla Android) are quite surveillance-centric, it only makes sense to try to keep the population under a watchful eye to stay ahead of any potential challenges to their authority. They hate the thought of people doing anything digitally that they can’t keep tabs on.
What pisses me off is the way they pass movies and shows amongst each other and arbitrarily drop them from their platforms to pull this artificial scarcity nonsense. Oh you want to watch this movie? We don’t have it anymore, better sign up for that other service. Or, sorry this movie from the 60s is unavailable on any service, but you can “rent” it for $10/24hrs. Then there is the app causing grief for no good reason (cough Paramount), or two many people are watching the same thing and the CDN isn’t scaled appropriately for a service you already pay too much for, or you can’t watch Netflix in a browser on Linux because DRM, or we decided your HDMI cable is not up to our spec requirements, even though it was gone 5 minutes ago, because fuck you. And then on top of it all, the quality from every streaming provider is dog shit.
And do the companies care? Nope, not one bit. What are you gonna do about it, not watch TV? In 2025? Get with the program pleb, now bend over and shit benjamins to keep your wife and kids occupied.
You know which service doesn’t have all these issues? My damn home server, and the quality is fantastic. And all it costs me is the electricity (but let’s not talk about my power bill).
Look at the cost you’re paying for Prime and consider how many orders you’d have to place to break even (using the Prime membership money just to pay for shipping when you need it faster, etc).
I exceed the hell out of that in probably a couple weeks for my business. I hate it, but I’m pinched to keep costs down and time is valuable, and unfortunately Amazon fills that requirement too well. I live in a small town, I don’t have time to dedicate an entire day to driving to civilization and back, plus fuel costs. Plus, Amazon gets it to my mail depot faster than I can get it from other suppliers, without having to pay shipping.
If not wanting to format my machine every year to keep it from bogging down makes me a terrorist, well, shit.