I'm not one for these
subscription based services; I like to own my games outright, but I'm reading quite a few contrasting opinion
pieces on other sites (sorry), it would be good to hear the views of the editors above!
There is more of a move towards the Internet because you do have a little bit more freedom of choice, people do have — when it comes to television, they find they don't need 700 channels, they just need a handful of channels that they watch all the time and that they are willing to pay a monthly price for that, it's most of the time less than cable, and I think that's an interesting other notion that traditional services with the judicial pricing is fading out in favor of, and I think that that was another
piece that Mary Meeker brought up, is the idea of the
subscription that
subscription services
on the Internet are also kind of all the rage being able to subscribe to things that you receive
on a regular
basis, Office 365, Acrobat, they are all
on subscription services, a very model of how we purchase these things is changing as well, and that's all due to the Internet.