Comment by kypro
People don't have to buy this stuff you know...
In a free market vendors should have the freedom to create bad subscription services and consumers should be free to buy other hardware if they don't like it...
I buy a $100 phone like once every 3 years... No one is forcing me to buy a premium Apple phone every year. Doing so is purely a consumer choice. Perhaps a stupid one, but one consumers should have imo.
Just because you and I don't like it surely doesn't mean it should be regulated.
The problem is, it's not a free market. We as consumers are literally stuck between gatekeepers. Regulation is not only recommended, it's desperately needed (or alternative way to force corps out of dark patterns).