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Holiday Inn
1942 · Film · 101 min
Directed by Mark Sandrich
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his manager.
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If bad PR affected their business, they might have something to consider. But this will never affect their growth. They're not going to lose a single solitary sale that isn't already accounted for by their standard profit model. The only bad PR that would affect their business is if their actual reputation as a service provider were tarnished. Charging people money for a service they used does not tarnish AWS's reputation. It's their whole business model.
When you stay in a hotel room longer than you're supposed to and they charge you for another half day, or you eat food from the mini fridge, or buy a pay-per-view movie, etc, you could claim ignorance, and create stories about how terrible it is that people get charged for these things unknowingly. But Holiday Inn's bookings are still not going to take a noticeable hit.
Moreover, they don't even need to offer a Free Tier to get people to use AWS. They're AWS. They're the gold standard. It's like saying IBM would need a Free Tier (back when IBM wasn't trash). It wasn't a question of whether you should use IBM, it was whether you could afford it.
The streaming industry is fragmenting. From what I'm seeing you can use:
* Freeuim services with a ton of redundant commercials and dated content (Crackle, Midnight Pulp, Cocoro, Pluto). There a couple of 'classic' movies from the 70's and 80's (man I fee old now) but the commercials are automatically inserted by AI based on showing a commercial every 12 minute when the AI thinks the action is at slowest by audio volume. The problem is that it break the flow of the show because it ussualy a reflective moment and not a proper transition. Also I'll see the exact same Holiday Inn commercial 3-4 times at each break.
* Sub $10 services with less commercials and more recent content (Hulu.) I'm already paying for you. Why do I have you even more to turn off your commercial?
* Dull streaming service in the greater the $10 with no commercials (HBO, Starz, Netflix, Sling). These are great content but there some redundancy. Also I'm not going subscribe to each of you to get one or two shows when there's... cable.
Its getting to the point where viewers are saying 'Why do this when you can get a cable box that has a DVR or On Demand service and 'easy' customer service. The same customer service their high speed internet is going through. So there isn't much of a difference there.
If the streaming service was to survive they need to come up with a central application that lets you go more ala carte for your content at a less of an overall price easier navigation. Smart TVs and Roku boxes come close but it still a pain to switch apps. The cost advantage over cable isn't what it use to be. Steaming service had better be careful with pricing and content or cable will take over again.