{"id":4369,"date":"2022-10-25T08:45:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/staging\/3703\/2022\/10\/25\/subscriptions-will-be-the-death-of-us\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T11:31:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T16:31:50","slug":"subscriptions-will-be-the-death-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/25\/subscriptions-will-be-the-death-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Subscriptions will be the death of us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How many do you have? Seems innocent enough, just a few dollars a month or as they used to say &#8220;pennies a day&#8221;. Some of you are saying &#8220;What&#8217;s a penny?&#8221; ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seriously, add them up, it&#8217;s killing us by just a few more dollars every month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my Instagram feed I get lots of ads now like everyone and one that I&#8217;ve seen many time was for the reMarkable tablet, note taking with a pen and paper feel. Being a bit of a tech junkie I looked a bit deeper.  How much does this reMarkable thing cost?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/staging\/3703\/wp-content\/img_4574-2-473x1024.png\" class=\"wp-image-4370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4574-2-473x1024.png 473w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4574-2-139x300.png 139w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4574-2-69x150.png 69w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4574-2-768x1663.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4574-2-709x1536.png 709w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4574-2-946x2048.png 946w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4574-2.png 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, right now it&#8217;s about $549 CDN plus all the shipping, handling and taxes etc.  but check out the subscription hook!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To maintain full functionality of your $549+ purchase there is a $4.99\/month subscription! A subscription that will slowly increase over time or take a sudden jump like my YouTube premium subscription just did from $17.99 to $22.99\/mo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So reMarkable, no thanks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The subscription model? Death by a thousand cuts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many do you have? Seems innocent enough, just a few dollars a month or as they used to say &#8220;pennies a day&#8221;. Some of you are saying &#8220;What&#8217;s a penny?&#8221; ? Seriously, add them up, it&#8217;s killing us by just a few more dollars every month. In my Instagram feed I get lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[329,3],"tags":[332,331,330],"class_list":["post-4369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-money","category-technology","tag-finances","tag-money","tag-subscription"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/52e07e88-4117-482b-8533-ba9bc9a835c0-4.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4371,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/4371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}