#Apple and Amazon price increase

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Sponsored listings are a ripoff…for sellers

Tonight (November 29), I'm at NYC's Strand Books with my novel The Lost Cause, a solarpunk tale of hope and danger that Rebecca Solnit called "completely delightful."

Not all ads are created equally sleazy. The privacy harms from surveillance ads, though real, are often hard to pin down. But there's another kind of ad - or "ad" that picks your pocket every time you use an ecommerce site.

This is the "sponsored listing" ad, which allows merchants to bid to be among the top-ranked items in response to your searches - whether or not their products are a good match for your query. These aren't "ads" in the way that, say, a Facebook ad is an ad. These are more #payola, a form of bribery that's actually a crime (but not when Amazon does it):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola#U.S._investigations_and_aftermath

Amazon is the global champion of payola. It boasts of $31 billion in annual "ad" revenue. That's $31 billion that Amazon sellers have to recoup from you. But Amazon's use of "most favored nation" deals (which requires sellers to offer their lowest prices on Amazon) mean that you don't see those price-hikes because sellers raise their prices everywhere:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/25/greedflation/#commissar-bezos

Forget Twitter: Amazon search is the poster-child for enshittification, in which Amazon locks you in (for example, with a year's shipping prepaid through Prime) and then you get recommended worse products while sellers make less money and Amazon pockets the difference.

Sellers who don't sell on Amazon are dead in the water, because most US households have Amazon Prime and overwhelmingly, Prime users start their search on Amazon, and, if they find the goods they're seeking. After all, they've prepaid for shipping.

So sellers suck it up and pay a 45-51% Amazon tax and pass it on to us - no matter where we shop. A lot of the junk fees sellers pay are related to Prime and other fulfillment services, but an increasing share of the Amazon tax comes from the need to pay to "advertise," because if they don't buy the top result for searches for their own products, their competitors' ads will push them right off the first page (those competitors spend money on advertising, rather than manufacturing quality).

There's a lot of YOLO/ROFLMAO in those ads: search for "cat beds" and 50% of the first five screens are ads - including ads for dog products, apparently bought by companies adopting a spray-and-pray approach to advertising. Someone selling a quality product still has to outbid all of those garbage sellers:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/28/enshittification/#relentless-payola

This is at the root of Amazon's Pricing Paradox: while Amazon can defend itself against regulators by citing sellers whose prices are lower and/or whose quality is higher, it's nearly impossible for shoppers to get those deals. If you click the top result for your search, you will, on average, pay 29% more than you would if you found the best bargain on the site:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens

What's more, you can't fix this by simply sorting by price, or by reviews, or some mix of the two. The sleaziest sellers have mastered tricks like changing the number of units they sell so the total price is lower. For example, if batteries are normally sold $10 for a four-pack, a sleazy seller can offer batteries at $9 for three units. A lowest-to-highest price-sort will put this item ahead of a cheaper rival.

Researchers found that getting a good deal at Amazon requires that you make a multifactorial spreadsheet by laboriously copy/pasting multiple details from individual listing pages and then doing sorts that Amazon itself doesn't permit:

https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3645/

There's an exception to this: Amazon and Apple have a cozy, secret arrangement to exclude these "ads" from searches for Apple products. But if you're shopping for anything else, you're SOL:

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-gives-apple-special-treatment-while-others-suffer-junk-ads-2023-11

These payola markets are bad for buyers, and they cost sellers a lot of money, but are they at least good for sellers? A new study from three business-school researchers - Vibhanshu Abhishek, Jiaqi Shi and Mingyu Joo - shows that payola is a very bad deal for good sellers, too:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3896716

After doing a lot of impressive quantitative work, the authors conclude that for good sellers, showing up as a sponsored listing makes buyers trust their products less than if they floated to the top of the results "organically." This means that buying an ad makes your product less attractive than not buying an ad.

The exception is sellers who have bad products - products that wouldn't rise to the top of the results on their own merits. The study finds that if you buy your mediocre product's way to the top of the results, buyers trust it more than they would if they found it buried deep on page eleventy-million, to which its poor reviews, quality or price would normally banish it.

But of course, if you're one of those good sellers, you can't simply opt not to buy an ad, even though seeing it with the little "AD" marker in the thumbnail makes your product less attractive to shoppers. If you don't pay the danegeld, your product will be pushed down by the inferior products whose sellers are only too happy to pay ransom.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/29/aethelred-the-unready/#not-one-penny-for-tribute

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[probablyasocialecologist]

From Apple to Disney, Gucci to Shell, many of the largest companies in the world have used carbon credits for their sustainability efforts from the unregulated voluntary market, which grew to $2bn (£1.6bn) in size in 2021 and saw prices for many carbon credits rise above $20 per offset. The credits are often generated on the basis they are contributing to climate change, mitigation such as stopping tropical deforestation, tree planting and creating renewable energy projects in developing countries. Proponents say they need to massively increase in size and scale to help meet the Paris agreement to limit global heating. But repeated scandals about their true impact and a crackdown from regulators on claims of “carbon neutrality” have meant that demand and prices for offsetting have slumped, with signs that some carbon credit traders are writing off investments that would have been worth hundreds of millions of dollars as recently as last year.

[...]

A new study in the journal Science has found that millions of forest carbon credits approved by Verra, the world’s leading certifier, are largely worthless and could make global heating worse if used for offsetting. The research by scientists and economists at the University of Cambridge and VU Amsterdam was one of the three studies used in a January investigation into rainforest offsets by the Guardian, Die Zeit and Source Material. The Science study was used in a pre-print form while awaiting peer review, which it has since passed. The analysis, published on Thursday, found that 18 big forest offsetting projects had produced millions of carbon credits based on calculations that greatly inflated their conservation impact. The schemes, which generate credits by avoiding hypothetical deforestation, were found not to reduce forest loss or to reduce it by only small amounts, far less than the huge areas they were claiming to protect, rendering the credits largely hot air. The findings follow a 2020 study of 12 projects in the Brazilian Amazon by the same group, which found they had a negligible impact on stopping deforestation despite generating credits on the basis they were preventing large areas from being destroyed. A 2022 study of 40 Verra-approved projects led by University of Cambridge researchers found that while some projects did stop deforestation, most stopped none or small amounts.

#climate change #carbon credits #greenwashing #carbon offset

[jordanrosenburg]

I just need to rant for a second because I'm so aggravated. Amazon Prime is $139 annually or $14.99 monthly. It used to only be like $100 annually, or $50 annually if you were a student. I do the $139 annual charge because it's actually cheaper overall than the monthly plan. (14.99 x 12 = 179.88) A lot of services are cheaper annually. But most people see the "lower" monthly fee and figure that's more manageable.

Amazon Prime Video is one of the "perks" of having an AP premium membership. The movies and tv shows on there don't have commercials, rightfully so. However, subscribers will soon start seeing ads unless they want to pay an extra $2.99 a month. So, for those monthly folks, that's now $17.98 a month. FOR WHAT?!

"We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting January 29, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time. We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership. We will also offer a new ad-free option for an additional $2.99 per month*..."

That's funny because, they cancelled The Wilds after 2 seasons. (Netflix does the same thing! And Netflix just very sneakily got rid of their $7.99 a month low-res option. So now if you don't want to pay $11.99 a month which is the new "basic" plan, you have to pay for ads.)

"Access to exclusive and broad streaming video content (including Prime Video exclusives like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Boys, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Citadel, The Wheel of Time, Reacher, and The Summer I Turned Pretty, as well as blockbuster movies such as Air, Creed III, Dungeons & Dragons, Candy Cane Lane with Eddie Murphy, and exclusive live sports including NFL Thursday Night Football). Access to Prime Video Channels, which provides an unmatched selection of subscription channels like Max, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, BET+, MGM+, ViX+, Crunchyroll, PBS KIDS, NBA League Pass, MLB.TV, and STARZ—with no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Customers only pay for the ones they want, and can cancel anytime."

All of those "channels" are extra costs. And they're saying this as if you can't just download the apps to your TV as if everyone only has firesticks or Amazon TVs these days nowadays.

And also, what if I don't like any of the original programming? What if I didn't care about football? All of the original programming I was invested in, was cancelled! I'm hoping The Summer I Turned Pretty doesn't get cancelled after the third season, but who knows?!

And what's different with APV as opposed to other streaming services is that this is just included with AP. This isn't something you can opt out of to save money. So, you may as well use it, right? What aggravates me the most is the fact that when I go to search for something, it'll either say, "Video not available, watch with [insert extra channel I'd need to pay for here], rent for $x.xx, or buy for $x.xx". I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY EXTRA TO WATCH SOMETHING ON A SERVICE I ALREADY PAY FOR! NOR SHOULD I HAVE TO DOWNLOAD ANOTHER APP OR CHANNEL THAT ALSO REQUIRES PAYMENT.

I am so sick of having to surf between Hulu, Netflix, APV, MAX, Paramount+, Peacock, Apple TV, or Disney+. My Hulu is included in my Spotify because I was grandfathered into that option, so I don't pay extra for Hulu. However, I can't watch everything on Hulu unless I want to pay for the Hulu Live option which is $76.99 a month WITH ADS! So, between paying that or $10.99 for my Spotify/Hulu plan, yeah, I'm gonna keep the $10.99 a month plan. With Hulu Live, you still have the issue of not being able to watch everything you want to watch! There are still movies and TV shows that are unavailable. And I'm not talking about original content. I'm talking about if I have the urge to watch an old movie or binge an old TV show, I should be able to do that without flipping between services or having to pay extra!

I'm aware that rights and ownership come into play here. I know these services have to pay the networks to be able to stream certain shows. However, Amazon is a multi-BILLION dollar company. I think they can afford to eat the cost. They wonder why piracy is still a thing. How could it not be? All of this costs so much money and you still can't watch the things you want to watch!

People turned to streaming services so they could go ad-free and to save money on cable. Now, it all costs the same, even more, as cable depending on how many services you're paying for.

I also think APV is pulling this bullshit as a punishment for the strikes. "We lost so much money because the writers and actors were gone for so long, so now we need to make up for that lost time and also we have to cancel certain shows because they take months to put together and cost so much to film. So now we have to raise our prices so we can try to salvage what we can afford to do." That's essentially the message they're sending.

Amazon has generated approximately $553.7 billion in revenue over the last year. So, this is clearly just the usual corporate greed. Breaking even isn't an option anymore. Every quarter, every year needs to make more money than the last. Meanwhile, Amazon treats their warehouse workers like garbage. (I hope the workers keep unionizing because they literally keep the world running. We're able to get just about anything delivered same day or overnight because of the warehouse workers and drivers.)

The writers went on strike because they were being run ragged and so were the actors. When you have a speedy three month production, that means those people need to find other jobs for the other months of the year. That's why the next season would take a year to make because people found other jobs, so they needed to work around those schedules. And that's not to say some writers and actors and behind the camera workers aren't working multiple jobs at the same time, because they are, but this creates more and more time conflicts. They weren't, and probably still aren't, paying these people enough. So, now that things have been renegotiated, the streaming services are upping their fees for bullshit reasons all because they legally have to pay their workers more and god forbid they don't turn a billion dollar profit.

It costs more money to market towards new subscribers than it does to maintain the ones you already have. But who am I to say anything?

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[mariacallous]

Just days after people gleefully posted their Spotify Wrapped, bad news came for the music streaming giant. Spotify announced today that it would cut 17 percent of its workforce, a chunk that equates to an estimated 1,500 people. It’s the third time the world’s largest music streamer has cut jobs this year.

The news came after Spotify posted its first profitable quarter since 2021. In a memo to staff, CEO Daniel Ek said the company had expanded its workforce and offerings significantly throughout 2020 and 2021, thanks to lower-cost capital, but is now bumping up against the same problems startups across industries are facing, like high capital costs and slowed economic growth.

Ek said the cuts may seem “surprisingly large given the recent positive earnings report and our performance,” but due to “the gap between our financial goal state and our current operational costs,” Spotify would take “substantial action.”

Despite its popularity (Spotify held 30 percent of the music streaming market by late 2022), the company has long struggled to turn consistent profits. The layoffs wrap up a bad year: Spotify cut 6 percent of its workforce last January, followed by another 2 percent in June as it slimmed down its podcasting business. Even as the world’s most recognizable music streaming service, Spotify is plagued by an unreliable business model, one in which record companies sit back and rake in royalty payments while artists can struggle to bring in enough cash.

“Investors are increasingly impatient in 2023 for tech firms to start making money,” says Phil Bird, head of rights and royalties at the software development company Vistex. Spotify isn’t alone—tech companies have slashed jobs throughout the year, with more than 250,000 people losing jobs worldwide in 2023, according to layoffs.fyi, a site that tracks job cuts in tech.

Many major tech companies that overhired during the pandemic have taken steps to rightsize—and that’s what Ek says Spotify is doing now. But Spotify’s high cost to license music adds to its financial strain. “The cost of doing business is huge for streaming companies,” Bird says.

Spotify gained momentum in the third quarter of 2023, earning €32 million ($34.6 million) in operating income. It now has 226 million subscribers and 574 million monthly users. “On the surface, it looks great,” says Simon Dyson, senior principal analyst of music and digital audio at consultancy firm Omdia. “It’s [those] nagging costs that it can’t get on top of.”

Spotify and the recording industry have a deeply entwined and sticky relationship: Spotify is seen by some as a savior of the music industry, which flailed after Napster upended music downloading in 1999, but artists earn wildly different incomes based on how Spotify pays. According to a calculation from Billboard, Taylor Swift may have earned nearly $100 million from streaming on Spotify so far this year. Smaller artists earn far less, and music streaming models have long been accused of exploiting them.

Like Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music are each charging $10.99 per month for premium subscriptions, and each give access to 100 million songs. But unlike Spotify, Apple and Amazon have massive streams of revenue elsewhere to fall back on. So Spotify has spent the past few years looking for that standout content. It spent more than $1 billion building its podcast world and acquiring exclusive deals to shows like The Joe Rogan Experience. This fall, it began offering paying subscribers in the UK and Australia free audiobook access for 15 hours each month.

The music streaming fight isn’t like the streaming wars, where Max, Netflix, Hulu, and others can each lure in subscribers with a combination of classic and original movies and shows. If Spotify were to charge more for music (it already increased monthly prices from $9.99 to 10.99 in the US this summer), it would risk losing people to comparable services, where people can find the same songs. But unless it can convince people to pay more for music, it might continue to struggle.

“It’s too cheap,” says Dyson. “To have access to every single piece of music that’s ever been released—and ever will be released—for $10 a month is just astounding.” The same is true of Spotify today as was true when it was founded 17 years ago: It’s a business that’s good for listeners and labels but bad for both streamers and artists.

[allaboutmarketing4you]

Marketing Strategies And Marketing Mix Of Adobe

Source: The Brand Hopper

"Adobe’s Marketing Mix (4Ps): A Deeper Dive

Adobe’s success can be attributed to its strategic implementation of the marketing mix, the 4Ps: Product, Price, Place, and Promotion. Let’s explore each element in detail:

1. Product:

Breadth: From Photoshop and Illustrator for design to Premiere Pro and After Effects for video editing, Adobe covers diverse creative needs. They even offer XD for web design and Spark for social media content creation.

Depth: Each software has various versions. Photoshop Elements caters to beginners, while Photoshop CC caters to professionals. This ensures accessibility and scalability for different user groups.

Innovation: Adobe Research invests heavily in AI, machine learning, and other cutting-edge technologies. This translates into features like Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop and Rotoscoping in After Effects.

Integration: Adobe products work seamlessly together. For example, you can edit a photo in Photoshop and directly export it to Premiere Pro for video editing.

Services: Adobe Creative Cloud offers 20GB of cloud storage, access to Adobe Fonts, and integration with stock photo libraries like Adobe Stock, enhancing the overall creative workflow.

2. Price

Subscription Model: Adobe transitioned from perpetual licenses to subscriptions in 2013. This makes their software more affordable for individuals and small businesses, especially with monthly payment options.

Tiered Pricing: Individual, team, and enterprise subscriptions offer different features and functionalities, catering to diverse needs and budgets.

Free Trials and Freemium Options: Adobe offers free trials for most products, allowing users to experience the software firsthand. Some products also have limited free versions with basic features.

Discounts: Educational institutions, students, and teachers receive significant discounts on Adobe Creative Cloud, expanding access to future generations of creative professionals.

Bundled Offerings: Adobe Creative Cloud offers various bundles combining multiple products at a discounted price. This incentivizes purchases and increases perceived value.

3. Place

Direct Sales: Adobe sells directly through its website and flagship stores, offering personalized recommendations, tutorials, and in-depth product demonstrations.

Partner Channels: Strategic partnerships with leading tech companies like Microsoft and Apple expand reach and distribution channels. This makes Adobe software easily accessible through familiar platforms.

Online Marketplaces: Adobe software is available on Amazon and the Microsoft Store, increasing visibility and accessibility for users who prefer these platforms.

Cloud Delivery: Adobe Creative Cloud is delivered through the cloud, eliminating installation hassles and allowing users to access their files and projects from any device with an internet connection.

Mobile Apps: Adobe offers mobile versions of popular products like Photoshop and Lightroom, catering to the on-the-go creative needs of users and expanding their creative potential beyond desktops.

4. Promotion

Content Marketing: Adobe offers high-quality content across various formats. The Adobe Blog features in-depth tutorials, industry insights, and creative inspiration. They also have dedicated YouTube channels for each product, offering tutorials, tips, and behind-the-scenes glimpses.

Community Engagement: Adobe fosters a strong community through forums like the Adobe Help Center and user groups. They also host events like Adobe MAX, which connects users, showcases new features, and inspires creativity.

Social Media Marketing: Active engagement on platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube builds brand awareness and connects with users directly.

Influencer Marketing: Collaborations with renowned creative professionals like photographers and designers amplify brand messaging and reach new audiences. Adobe also has an Adobe Creative Experts program, empowering passionate users to share their knowledge and expertise.

Events and Conferences: Adobe hosts and participates in industry events like Adobe MAX and Adobe Summit. These events showcase innovation, connect with potential customers, and build brand awareness.

Paid Advertising: Adobe uses targeted ads on platforms like Google and social media to reach specific audience segments and drive traffic to their website and free trial offers.

By strategically implementing these elements, Adobe has created a marketing mix that is comprehensive, effective, and adaptable. They have gone beyond simply selling software; they have built a community, fostered creativity, and established themselves as a leader in the industry. This approach not only drives sales but also builds brand loyalty and establishes a strong foundation for future growth. "

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[earnmoneywithshaan]

Top 5 US Stocks to buy for Long Term | 2023

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TOP 5 US STOCKS TO BUY FOR LONG TERM :

NO 1 . APPLE

NO 2 . AMAZON.COM

NO 3 . TESLA

NO 4 . MICROSOFT CORPORATION

NO 5 . VISA

WHY I PICKED THESE 5 STOCKS ?

APPLE :

The Apple Stock Price Is Continuously Rising . If You will Checks the Last 6 Month Result You Will See That It Has Rise from $159 To $174 Approx $16 Rise In Just Last 6 Month And That's a Good Thing . Apple Stock Price Rises Every Year Because Of Company Value As It Bring Amazing Phone With Amazing Features .

If You See 1 Year Back The Price Of Apple Stock Was $125 And Now Currently It's $174 and Soon It Will Reach $200 . I Recommend you To Invest In This Stock Because it Will Give You a Huge Profit In Future ...

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Everybody Knows Amazon Right ? . So , Currently The Price Of Amazon Is Falling And It's a Great Opportunity To Buy The Stock In Low Price . What You Think Amazon Price will Not Rise ? . As We The Technology Is Rapidly Growing and Everyone Is Busy In Their Life . So , In Future You Will See a Huge Rise in Amazon Stock Because Of The Rise In Population And Everybody Wants The Thing Just by Sitting Instead Of Going Out And Purchasing It ...

So , Currently The Price of Amazon Stock is $129 . If You will See It's Chart To Google You will Find That It's Price is Falling From Last 1 Month . So , I 100% Recommend You To Buy This Stock And In Last 1 Year it Has Rise From $114 to $129 . I know It's Not a Huge Rise in Price But In Future It Will Be On the Top .

TESLA :

Who Don't Know Elon Musk . The Richest Person in the World And the Owner Of Spacex And Tesla . Tesla Stock Price is Falling From Last 20-25 Days . On 18 September 2023 The Stock Price Was $271 And Now It's $241 . What a Huge Fall in Tesla Stock Price . Many People Will Sell It Because the Price Is Falling But The Intelligent Investor's Will Buy It Right Now Because the Price has Fallen .

The Last Year Company Was in Loss And The Share Price Went Down Approx $50 in a Year . See , As You Know The Petrol Cars will Be Getting Banned In Future Because Of So Much Pollution and ELECTRIC CAR OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE Are Launched . So , it's 99% Confirmed that The Price Of Tesla Will Increase In Future .

MICROSOFT CORPORATION :

Microsoft Corporation Is a Huge and Oldest Company And Currently It's Price Is Also Falling From Last 1 Month It Has Fall About $10 in The Last 1 Month . The Current Stock Price is $317 .

But In The Last 6 Months It Has Rise About $40 and It's a Good Rise in Price And In Last 1 Year It Has Rise About $80 . That's a Huge Rise in Price . Imagine This Is The Price Of One Stock And If You Have Hundreds or Thousands of Stocks It Will Make You Rich In Future .

VISA :

The Stock Price Of Visa Is Also Falling From Last 1 Month . It has Fallen About $7 Last Month . The Current Stock Price is $235 And May Be It Will Rise In Future . I am Saying This Because Of It's Company Performance In Last Year . But I Recommend You To Buy It For Atleast 4 - 5 Years . Hold Your Stock For 4 - 5 Year's And Then It Will Give You a Good Profit .

So , These are the Top 5 US Stocks For Long Term . Please Remember We Don't Have Any Exact Information That It Will 100% Rise . We Say This By Analysing The Market And The Performance Of The Company In Last Few Years . So , Invest At Your Risk .

But Yes , According To Our Research We are Sure That in 4 - 5 Year's The Price of These Stocks Will Go Very High .

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[nickgerlich]

Word For Word

I have always been a reader. It started when I was a kid, and my parents started buying Hardy Boys mystery books for me. They captivated me, and although I did not know it at the time, planted a seed that grew into a voracious appetite for the written word.

One look at my house, and you will see the results. My library runneth over.

But even heavy readers run up against the constraints imposed by the modern world, which means there is never quite enough time to read as much as we would like. Audiobooks addressed that problem, because we could listen to someone reading the book to us while on the morning commute, while working out, and on long auto or airplane trips. It may not be the same experience of turning pages, smelling the ink, and falling asleep on the sofa with the book on your chest, but it gets the job done.

Amazon saw that future when it bought Audible in 2008. While audiobooks are forecast to reach 10% of the global publishing market in 2027, an admittedly small share of the market, it is still lucrative enough for anyone willing to chase it.

And that is exactly what Spotify did last year when it announced it would add audiobooks to its music and podcast menu. The only problem is the Apple Tax. In order to listen to an audiobook, users must actually purchase it, which is completely unlike how we listen to streaming music (we basically rent it). Apple takes 30% of every item purchased in-app, and is not fond of workarounds whereby purchasers are redirected to another site to leave their money. With that kind of tax, it didn’t leave much money for Spotify.

That was a sucker punch for them. As it stands, Spotify users must leave the app, fumble around on the Spotify website to buy the book, and then listen to it in the app. But users had to know all this.

Not one to take things lying down, Spotify just announced it is going to start rolling out a limited audiobook listening feature to its premium customers. Choice will be limited to 150,000 titles, and 15 hours a month. The service already launched in the UK and Australia, and will be in the US by the end of the year. Basically, they are teasing premium subscribers with a sample, a lot like those samples given away at Costco and Sam’s on the weekends.

Fifteen hours is probably not enough time to listen to a long book, and I’m not sure if Spotify goes by calendar months, or billing cycles. If the former, you could start a book late one month, and finish it early the next. If the latter, you have to pony up some money.

I seriously doubt that Apple will budge on their tax either, especially in the case of Spotify, who happens to be its biggest foe in the music streaming business. Spotify is betting that once listeners taste and see, that they will be happy to fork over even more money.As for Amazon, they should be nervous, because the Spotify app is about as common on smartphones as the weather. There are more than 100 million users in the US alone. About 40% of Spotify’s listeners are in the premium category.

While Audible has enjoyed many years in the sun as the dominant player, Spotify is a formidable foe. Just ask Amazon about how well they are doing in the music business. Even if both play by Apple’s rules and share a sizable chunk of their audiobook revenues, there is probably still enough left in the margins to make their efforts worthwhile. For comparison, printed books typically have a 40% margin off list price, but big sellers can sometimes muscle in and get even better margins. The beauty of audiobooks is that they do not have to be inventoried, so every title sold is pure overhead-free profit.

This is a brilliant tactic by Spotify to keep users more engaged with the app. Their foray into podcasts keeps me on Spotify for a minimum of two hours each day on my workouts, and more when I am on long trips. Whether I increase my listening because of the audiobooks remains to be seen, but it will certainly make my experience all the richer.

I’m blaming my parents.

Dr “By The Word” Gerlich

Audio Blog

#marketing #audiobooks #Spotify #streaming

[enterprisewired]

Amazon Music Unlimited gets more expensive for Prime Members

If you have Amazon Prime, listening to music is going to be expensive for you as the cost of Amazon Music Unlimited is likely to increase.

The firm said on Tuesday that its Amazon Music Unlimited package will now cost $9.99 per month instead of $8.99. The annual plan’s cost will increase from $89 to $99. The monthly cost of the Amazon Music Unlimited Family Plan will increase from $15.99 to $16.99, or from $159 to $169 annually.

Details of the Revised Planning

For brand-new clients, the revised pricing will take effect right away; for current customers, they will take effect after September 19. Amazon Music Unlimited has raised costs twice this year for users who do not also use Amazon Prime, most recently in January. The cost for adults increased from $9.99 to $10.99 per month during that price increase, while the cost for students increased from $4.99 to $5.99 per month.

The new $9.99 price reflects the fact that Prime members will still receive a discount off the usual price, according to a spokeswoman for Amazon who talked to The Hollywood Reporter. The company’s premium music service, Amazon Music Unlimited, offers on-demand access to 100 million songs as well as a selection in Ultra HD and Spatial audio. It immediately competes with services like Apple Music, Spotify Premium, and YouTube Music Premium.

All music streaming services have seen price increases in recent months, with YouTube Music Premium and Spotify lately upping their premium plans‘ monthly costs to $10.99 each. Late last year, Apple Music increased its monthly cost to $10.99. Amazon has bundled a number of services, like free delivery and Prime Video, with premium services like Audible Premium Plus and Amazon Music Unlimited using its Prime membership programme. Last year, the business raised the cost of Amazon Prime from $119 to $139.

Free Version still Available

The firm updates the costs of some Amazon Music Unlimited plans “to help us bring you even more content and features,” according to a website update.

A version of Amazon Music is still freely accessible to Prime subscribers. That comprises the whole collection of 100 million tracks in addition to the additional hundreds of thousands of ad-free podcast episodes (including the entire catalogue of Wondery’s shows). Those Prime members who don’t have an unlimited membership and use Amazon Music are currently largely only able to listen in shuffle-play mode depending on an artist, album, or playlist.

Curious to learn more? Explore our articles on Enterprise Wired

#amazonmusic #spotify #applemusic #itunes #tidal #deezer #youtube #music #newmusic #soundcloud #googleplay

[fulfillplex]

Best Methods to Sell Print on Demand Gadgets Online (Part 1)

Do you adore Apple products? Perhaps you have a strong interest in the most recent laptops or a thorough understanding of cutting-edge smartphones. Whatever the reason, now could be an excellent time to launch an online gadgets store, especially given that the consumer gadgets industry in the United States alone is expected to be worth $2.06 trillion by 2023. However, selling online isn't always easy – and you might find yourself at a loss for where to begin. But don't worry; this ultimate guide to selling print on demand gadgets online will assist you. Continue reading to learn more.

 

How to Sell Print on Demand Gadgets Online?

 

1. Source Your Gadgets

You'll need to source gadgets before you can start selling them online. There are several options to consider for this and suitability for your specific goals and situation.

 

Wholesale

When looking for products for your business, the first place you'll probably look is a gadgets wholesaler – this is how most online and local gadgets stores get their products. On new gadgets, wholesalers will usually offer relatively competitive prices. They're also likely to have a good stock level, allowing you to get the products you need when you need them. Some wholesalers may have minimum order requirements, so consider where you'll store your gadgets before selling them.

 

Print on Demand Fulfillment

If you don't want to waste time sourcing and storing products, print on demand fulfillment can be a great option. When using print on demand services, your primary goal is to market and sell as many products as possible. When an order is received, it is routed to the company that fulfills it. It reduces storage and eliminates the need to deal with shipping and distribution companies' often complex arrangements. Of course, less effort equals less profit. It can be much more difficult to make a reasonable profit on each product you sell when hiring a print on demand company. That is why it is best to concentrate on volume.

 

Second Hand

Selling used gadgets can be a lucrative business venture. However, it can take significantly longer than purchasing from a wholesaler or print on demand fulfillment products. You're also dealing with uncertainty about future stock levels, which could make meeting customer demand difficult. However, if you can pull it off, sourcing and selling used gadgets can be very profitable and environmentally friendly. You can find used gadgets almost anywhere, from yard sales, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, and Amazon.

 

 

2. Sell Your Gadgets Online

Touch the surface of the online gadgets business, and you'll discover a plethora of options for where to sell.

 

Personal Website

Creating your own online store is arguably the best way to sell gadgets online. When you do this, you create a true asset – not to mention one over which you have complete control. Using a market-leading website builder, such as Wix or Shopify, will provide you with all of the tools you need to create a website that you can use to grow your business quickly and easily. Although all online selling platforms have advantages, owning your own site gives you the most room to grow.

 

Marketplaces

You can sell gadgets on several online marketplaces. The most popular are Amazon and Walmart. Using an online marketplace has several advantages, including ease with payments. However, there are some disadvantages to using an online marketplace. Unlike your website, you do not own the platform, which means you have little control over any changes to it, such as changes in functionality or commission increases.

 

Social Media

Many major social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest, now allow you to sell directly to your customers, eliminating the need to link to an external site. It is a great way to tap into your audience's engagement with social media platforms while also leveraging the following and hype you've built on your own social channels. However, there are some drawbacks to using online marketplaces, such as having little control over the platform and how your business operates on it. Most businesses that sell on social media pair it with their online store to expand their reach and make it easier for their customers to buy from them.

 

Trade-in

A trade-in site is a final option for selling gadgets online. Unlike online stores, marketplaces, or social media, these sites guarantee to buy your products and price them based on the model, age, and condition. You'll usually get a much lower price for your products if you sell them on these sites. They do, however, save you a significant amount of money on sales, marketing, and store setup. These sites can be profitable if you can find cheap second-hand gadgets or shift stock from your online store that isn't selling.

 

Check out Part 2 on the next page! 

If you’re interested in outsourcing print on demand gadgets to sell online, you can check us out and get a quote.

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[luxurybrownbarbie]

Barbie, what do you think of Netflix Canada offering non-ad-free tiers now?

Ugh. It’s so embarrassing. Subscription based models are always a losing game, but when you increase your prices 300% over the course of two years, and cancel every decent show you have, and spend roughly 90 million dollars on Stranger Things, you’re going to hemorrhage customers and you only have yourself to blame! Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Apple TV will always be the only “profitable” streaming powerhouses because they have billions of dollars behind them.

#answered

[mostlysignssomeportents]

How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy

Amazon is a perfect parable of enshittification, the process by which platforms first offer subsidies to end users until they’re locked in, then make life good for business customers at users’ expense, until they’re locked in, then claw back all the value they can for themselves, leaving just enough behind to keep the lock-in going.

In a new report for SOMO, Margarida Silva describes how the end-stage enshittification of Amazon is playing out in the EU, with Amazon repeating its US playbook of gouging the small businesses who have no choice but to use the platform in order to reach its locked-in customers, making European customers and European sellers poorer:

https://www.somo.nl/amazons-european-chokehold/

The mechanism for this isn’t a mystery. Amazon boasts about it! They call it their flywheel: first, customers are lured into the platform with low prices, especially through Prime, which requires pre-payment for a year’s shipping, which virtually guarantees that customers will start their shopping on Amazon. Because customers now start their buying on Amazon, sellers have to be there. The increased range of goods for sale on Amazon lures in more buyers, who lure in more sellers, with both sides holding each other hostage:

https://vimeo.com/739486256/00a0a7379a

This flywheel creates a vicious cycle, starving local retail so that customers can’t get what they need from brick-and-mortar shops, which funnels sellers into offering their goods for sale on Amazon. The less choice customers and sellers have about where they shop, the more Amazon can abuse both to pad its own bottom line.

There are 800,000 EU-based sellers on Amazon, and they have seen the junk-fees that Amazon charges them skyrocket, to the point where they have to raise prices or lose money on each sale. Amazon uses both tacit and explicit “Most Favored Nation” deals to hide these price-hikes. Under an MFN deal, sellers must not allow their goods to be sold at a lower price than Amazon’s — so when they raise prices to cover Amazon’s increasing fees, they raise them everywhere:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/25/greedflation/

It’s not hard to understand why Amazon would raise its fees: the company has an effective e-commerce monopoly. Like Ozymandias, they have run out of worlds to conquer, and so their growth has to come from squeezing suppliers and/or raising prices, not from bringing in new customers. This is likewise true of mobile companies like Apple and Google, who have run out of people who are so excited about incremental mobile hardware gains that they’ll buy a new phone every year, which means that growth has to come from squeezing app vendors:

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/06/09/Pixel-4-to-7

This is likewise true of the streaming companies, which is why Netflix is cracking down on “password sharing”:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/02/nonbinary-families/#red-envelopes

It’s true of the movie studios, which is why they want to zero out their wage bills by replacing writers with automatic plausible sentence generators that will write stupid movies that they think we’ll still pay to see because there won’t be anything else:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/06/people-are-not-disposable/#union-strong

It’s certainly true of Uber, which is why they’ve double the cost of a taxi ride and halved the wages they pay drivers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

Monopolies “grow” by making their customers and suppliers worse off. But they have to be careful about this: if it’s obvious that you’re using your market power to screw buyers, you can get in trouble with competition regulators. That’s because the only part of antitrust law that the neoliberal project left intact is “consumer welfare” — the idea that monopolies should only face enforcement when they raise prices and/or lower quality:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/10/play-fair/#bedoya

This focus on price-hikes has given monopolists a free hand to squeeze suppliers and workers, because a monopolist — from Walmart to Amazon — can claim that squeezing your workers and suppliers is necessary to enhancing consumer welfare. The less you pay to produce a product, the cheaper you can price it.

When a company has a lot of seller power, we call it a monopolist. When it has a lot of buying power, we call it a monopsonist. No one ever made a bestselling, family-destroying board game called “Monopsony” so most people haven’t heard of the concept. But monopsony is every bit as dangerous as monopoly, and monopsonists find it far easier to acquire market power than monopolists. Few suppliers can afford to have even 10% of their sales disappear overnight, so a buyer who accounts for 10% of your sales can demand deep discounts and other favorable terms.

Amazon is a monopolist, but it’s also a very powerful and ruthless monopsonist. For example, its audiobook division, Audible, has a 90+% market-share, and it used that market-power to steal at least $100m from audiobook creators, in a scandal dubbed Audiblegate:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/07/audible-exclusive/#audiblegate

For Europe’s 800k sellers who rely on Amazon to reach their customers, the monoposony conditions are blatant and shameless. Take listing fees: Amazon’s “flywheel” pitch claims that as the company grows, it achieves “economies of scale” that can lower its cost basis. But Amazon’s listing fees haven’t changed, even as the company experienced explosive growth in the EU (remember, sellers whose Amazon fees exceed their margins have to pass those fees onto buyers, and also raise their prices everywhere else to satisfy the Most Favored Nation requirement).

Amazon books the revenues from these fees — and other junk-fees it extracts from sellers — in Luxembourg, an EU member nation that provides a tax haven to multinational businesses that want to maintain the fiction that they operate their businesses out of the tiny kingdom. There is sharp competition in the EU to offer the most servile, corrupt environment for multinationals, and Luxembourg is a leader, along with Cyprus, Malta and, of course, Ireland:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/finnegans-snooze/#dirty-old-town

But at least listing fees haven’t gone up, unlike other fees, which have climbed sharply. Amazon falsely claimed that its additional revenues from fees were the result of growth by independent sellers, which Amazon pegged at 65%. Later, the company admitted that the true growth figure was 22%. Meanwhile, fees are up 85%.

The true growth figure might be lower still. Amazon refuses to show the math behind its growth figures, or even say which sellers and sales are included in the figure.

The SOMO report cites research by Juozas Kaziukėnas of the e-commerce research firm Marketplace Pulse, who finds that sellers are now giving 50% of their gross revenues to Amazon, an increase of 10% over the past five years across the whole EU. However, different EU (and ex-EU) countries have experienced much steeper increases in fees — in the UK, fees have nearly doubled (up 98%), and in France, fees more than doubled (up 115%).

Many of these increases come from the Fulfilment By Amazon (FBA) program, which is promoted as an optional service, but which is really obligatory — careful research shows that sellers who warehouse, pack and ship their own goods get banished to the depths of search results, even if they have ratings, costs and times that are competitive with FBA. This is especially true of the “buy box” that lands at the top of most searches. The company refuses to disclose how buy box positioning is determined, but 90% of products in the buy box pay for FBA.

Amazon has used excuseflation to hike its FBA prices, blaming higher energy prices for price hikes that predated the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and blaming covid for price hikes that predated the pandemic.

Italy’s competition authority did yeoman service in uncovering the sleaze of FBA, publishing an investigation that showed that Prime and buy box made the notionally “optional” FBA into a must-have for merchants, meaning that Amazon could jack up FBA prices without losing business.

Another notable source of gouging came in response to the UK and France adopting digital services taxes, which were meant to make up for the tax-base erosion enabled by Luxembourg’s flouting of EU tax law. Amazon passed these taxes straight through to its merchants, without seeing a comparable decrease in the number of sellers using its platforms — an unmistakable sign of market power. If you can raise prices without losing customers, then, by definition, your customers have nowhere else to go.

I’ve previously written about how Amazon’s $31b/year “advertising” market isn’t really advertising — rather, it’s a payola scheme that auctions off the top of a search-listing to the merchant with the most to spend:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/28/enshittification/#relentless-payola

This is how you get a simple search like “cat beds” returning results whose first screen is 100% ads, and whose next five screens are 50% ads, many of them for dog products:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/amazon-shopping-ads/

Auctioning off search results means that every time you search for something you want, you have to wade through screen after screen of listings for products whose vendors spent more on advertising, leaving less to spend on making quality goods.

This is as true in the EU as it is in the USA. The SOMO report shows that European merchants are required to spend ever-larger sums to show up in results for the exact products they sell, leaving them with a choice between making less money, raising prices, or skimping on quality.

But even the “winners” of Amazon’s gladiatorial combat among vendors can still lose. Amazon uses an automated product removal process that can delete some or all of a merchant’s products, without warning or explanation, and no one at Amazon will explain what a merchant did wrong. That remains true even if a vendor pays for Amazon’s “marketplace consultant” service — ask these paid Virgils why you’ve been cast into Amazon’s pit, and they’ll shrug their shoulders (and bill you for it).

And even if you can navigate the junk fees, the Kafka-as-a-service removals, the war of all sellers against all sellers for search primacy…you still lose. Merchants told SOMO that a product that survives Amazon’s gauntlet is likely to be cloned by Amazon and sold as an Amazon Basic or other house-brand product. Amazon doesn’t charge itself 50% junk fees, so it can always underprice the vendors it knocks off, and give its own products permanent top-of-search placement.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once testified under oath before Congress that this doesn’t happen — and then refused to return to Congress when multiple vendors showed evidence that he’d lied:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/18/amazon-congress-letter-third-party-data/

He definitely lied:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-india-rigging/

Amazon has faced investigations and enforcement in the EU over this, and settled a claim with a promise to “not use non-public seller data to compete with sellers,” but given the company’s record of broken promises on this score and the difficulty of catching them cheating, it’s pretty naive to think they’ll stick to this.

The report quotes Thomas Höppner, a lawyer who has represented small businesses that Amazon screwed over. Höppner says the problem is that the EU evaluates Amazon’s bad deeds on a “case-by-case” basis, missing the big picture: “By the time one identified problem was seemingly solved, Amazon had long made amendments elsewhere with the same effect. We require a more holistic approach that considers the entire Amazon ecosystem and the various interdependencies within.”

But the EU’s enforcement approach is about to change significantly. The EU just passed the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which imposes a bunch of obligations on Amazon:

allowing sellers to offer their products on other marketplaces at different prices (Article 5.3),

not obliging business users to pay for one of its services in order to use its platform (Article 5.8),

limiting the way Amazon uses non-public seller data to compete with them (Article 6.2)

preventing Amazon from giving top billing in search results to its own products or sellers that have acquired extra Amazon services (Article 6.5)

The report concludes with a suite of recommendations for improving EU enforcement. First, they argue for a return to traditional competition law, abandoning the “consumer welfare standard” that is so friendly to monopsonies and their abuses of suppliers and workers.

They call for a probe into Amazon’s Most Favored Nation deals (“fair pricing policy”), the practice of sponsoring search results, and spiraling fees. They want the EU to adequately fund DMA enforcement, with “measures to prevent regulatory capture.” And they want Amazon to publish clear explanations for how search results, buy box placement, and other practices hidden behind a veil of secrecy.

Amazon will doubtless claim that disclosing how those systems work will make it easier for spammers and scammers to game their way to the top of search results. We should be skeptical of this claim — content moderation is the last domain where anyone takes the bankrupt idea of security through obscurity seriously:

https://doctorow.medium.com/como-is-infosec-307f87004563

Finally, the report calls for breaking up Amazon, forcing it to choose between being a platform seller or a platform user, calling this the only way to “prevent the conflicts of interest between its role as a platform intermediary, seller, and service provider.”

The technical term for this measure is “structural separation” — a rule that bans platform companies from competing with their business customers. This is the principle at work in the US bipartisan AMERICA Act, which would force Google and Meta to spin off the parts of their ad-tech business that put them in a conflict of interest. Right now, Googbook represents both publishers and advertisers, while operating the marketplace where ad sales take place, and they take 51% out of every ad dollar:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-shatter-ad-tech

Structural separation hasn’t really been applied in the US for a generation, but it’s gained currency in recent years, for the obvious reason that the referee can’t also own one of the teams. I was in Germany last week speaking to regulators and politicians, and they espoused skepticism that the EU would embrace structural separation anytime soon.

But they were wrong! Today, the European Commission announced plans to force Google and Meta to sell off their conflict-of-interest ad-tech lines of business, mirroring the provisions of the US AMERICA Act:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/google-may-soon-be-ordered-to-break-up-its-lucrative-ad-business-eu-warns/

Structural separation really is the policy we should be demanding. It’s amazing that lawyers who would never argue a case in front of a judge who was married to the plaintiff will turn around and defend the idea that Amazon can fairly operate a marketplace where they compete with other sellers.

With Amazon dominating online sales, and with in-person retail cratering, Amazon’s decisions have the power to determine the outcome of whole swathes of Europe’s economy. This is the “planned economy” that the EU claims it detests and seeks to prevent — but it’s an economy planned by distant autocrats in a Seattle boardroom, for the purpose of extracting the surpluses needed to launch an endless procession of penis-rockets.

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this postto read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/14/flywheel-shyster-and-flywheel/#unfulfilled-by-amazon

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Global Refurbished and Used Mobile Phones Market Size, In-Depth Assessment, CAGR, Demand, and Opportunity Analysis 2032 with Top Countries Data

Research Objective

The iSay Research has published a Market research report on “Refurbished and Used Mobile Phones Market” which provides an in depth knowledge and insights on the market size, revenue, various segmentation, growth drivers, restraining factors and regional presence of the industry. The purpose of the market research study conducted by the iSay Research is to conduct a thorough analysis of the ‘Refurbished and Used Mobile Phones Industry’ and put out a detailed knowledge about the industry and business attractiveness.

The Global Refurbished and Used Mobile Phones Market was valued at USD 52.23 Billion in 2022 and is projected to reach USD 116.46 Billion by 2032, registering a CAGR of 8.40% for the forecast period 2023-2032.

The Global Refurbished and Used Mobile Phones Market analysis report is the outcome of incessant efforts guided by knowledgeable forecasters, innovative analysts and brilliant researchers. With the specific and state-of-the-art information provided in this report, businesses can get idea about the types of consumers, consumer’s demands and preferences, their perspectives about the product, their buying intentions, their response to particular product, and their varying tastes about the specific product which is already present in the market.

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Players Covered in Refurbished and Used Mobile Phones Market,

Apple Inc.

Amazon

Samsung

Verizon Communications, Inc.

Cashify

Walmart

eBay

Paytm

Huawei

Yaantra

AT&T Inc. 

Others

Segmentation

The report covers all the types of segmentations ranging from Regional Segmentation, Geographical Segmentation, Segmentation by Product type, Segmentation by end-user industry, Segmentation by Application. These segmentations have been prepared by extensive research on various parameters and conditions in different geographies and economic conditions. Segmentation by Product, in 20xx, the yy product segment had the highest revenue share of more than aa %, and this dominance is projected to continue throughout the forecast period. The other alternative segment accounted for around aa% of total sales.

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Refurbished and Used Mobile Phones Market Segmentations:

Global Refurbished and Used Mobile Phones Market: Type Segment Analysis

Refurbished Phones

Used Phones

Global Refurbished and Used Mobile Phones Market: Price Range Segment Analysis

Less than $200

$200-$500

More than $500

Global Refurbished and Used Mobile Phones Market: Sales Channel Segment Analysis

Online

Offline

Global Refurbished and Used Mobile Phones Market Regional Outlook:

North America  (U.S., Canada, Mexico)

Europe (U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Central & Eastern Europe, CIS)

Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, ASEAN, India, Rest of Asia Pacific)

Latin America (Brazil, Rest of L.A.)

Middle East And Africa(Turkey, GCC, Rest of Middle East)

Competitive Landscape 

Competition has been growing for the Refurbished and Used Mobile Phones industry as the supply and demand has been on an increasing trend sine past decade. This report gives a detailed analysis of the presence of various small, medium and micro enterprises in the industry of numerous scales, their relative sizes, product offerings, and market positions in the pre and post pandemic situations.

The report provides insights on the following pointers:

Market Penetration: Provides comprehensive information on the market offered by the key players

Market Development: Provides in-depth information about lucrative emerging markets and analyze penetration across mature segments of the markets

Market Diversification: Provides detailed information about new product launches, untapped geographies, recent developments, and investments

Competitive Assessment & Intelligence: Provides an exhaustive assessment of market shares, strategies, products, certification, regulatory approvals, patent landscape, and manufacturing capabilities of the leading players

Product Development & Innovation: Provides intelligent insights on future technologies, R&D activities, and breakthrough product developments

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Maybe A League of Their Own was doomed to strike out. A passion project in all senses of the word, it was a reboot hell-bent on showing the queer lives in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that never made it into the 1992 movie. More succinctly, it was the kind of reimagining (long-form, prestige-y, tapping into an existing niche fanbase) that often only gets a shot thanks to a deep-pocketed streamer. It got to play one season. Last spring, Amazon Prime Video renewed it for a truncated second one. Last Friday, that plug got pulled; Amazon pointed the finger at the ongoing writers’ and actors’ strikes.

Abbi Jacobson, the Broad City star who co-created the series, hit Instagram to say that blaming the cancelation on the strikes was “bullshit and cowardly,” but the fact remains: The show’s life on Prime Video is over. Amazon also canceled the second season of the William Gibson adaptation The Peripheral, despite having renewed it back in February. Hollywood is a ruthless business, no matter which network or streamer a show calls home.

When the world looks back in, say, 30 years, the halcyon days of streaming will be looked upon as optimistic and fleeting—a time when Silicon Valley largesse meant Amazon would drop hundreds of millions of dollars on the Tolkien adaptation Rings of Power and Netflix would back money trucks up to Shonda Rhimes’ house so she could develop Bridgerton. In all likelihood, those kinds of deals will still exist in 2053, but as competition in the streaming space gets tighter, the moonshot projects will likely be fewer and the emphasis on return-on-investment will only increase.

This writing has been on the wall for a while, but got reinforced this week when The Hollywood Reporter pointed out that streamers are increasingly guiding users to ad-supported versions of their services, largely by increasing the cost of their ad-free tiers. Earlier this month, Disney announced that the cost per month of Disney+ and Hulu would be going up three bucks. Paramount+ swapped its $10 ad-free plan for a $12 one that includes Showtime. Netflix offers a $7/month ad-backed plan and a premium one that costs more than $15. Peacock, in July, upped the price of its ad-supported version by one dollar and its ad-free iteration by two.

As long foretold, this all just seems like streaming becoming the new cable TV. Now that there are more streaming services than there used to be network television stations, people are trying to save money on all those subscriptions. If ads help them do that, so be it.

But if every streamer is just a TV network, or some sort of modern-day HBO-in-the-'90s equivalent, that could leave content like The Peripheral or A League of Their Own in the lurch. Advertisers want to know they’re reaching eyeballs, and shows with small, albeit devoted, fanbases may not be the ones to lure those ad execs in. Once again, any show that isn’t at the level of a Seinfeld or Cheers may only get a season or two. The prestige stuff could still go to networks like Showtime or HBO, networks that traditionally got away with more because they didn’t have to worry about advertisers, but even HBO—and its streaming home Max—is run by someone who comes from Discovery and, as The New Yorker detailed this week, has become a “Hollywood antihero.”

There’s also the matter of live sports. For years, live sports has been the thing that has kept fans from fully cutting cable cords. But as Hulu, Amazon, YouTube, Apple, and others have moved to incorporate sports into their offerings, the necessity of getting ESPN or something like NBA League Pass via cable subscription has gone down. That’s cool and all, but it also means those wanting to follow the NFL now do so via a half-dozen networks, including Prime Video. And advertisers are following them.

This is what we mean when we say no one is winning the streaming wars. It’s not that one day there won’t be streaming services, or that just one or two will dominate, it’s that eventually mergers, consolidations, and spinoffs will leave viewers choosing between a handful of channels they really want, just like they chose cable packages in the past. All the networks will be vying to offer the most-viewed content, not niche shows like Minx. Maybe the Hollywood strikes will end and streamers, which are bargaining alongside the studios, will start paying the same residuals networks do. Maybe Apple will buy Disney after all. Maybe no one will be in their own league.

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Refurbished Laptops: A Smart Choice for Budget-Conscious Consumers

 In today's fast-paced world, technology evolves rapidly, leading many consumers to upgrade their electronic devices frequently. However, purchasing brand-new gadgets, especially laptops, can put a significant dent in one's budget. This is where refurbished laptops come into play, offering an affordable alternative without compromising on quality or performance.

Benefits of Buying Refurbished Laptops

Cost-Effectiveness

One of the most appealing aspects of refurbished laptops is their cost-effectiveness. These devices are typically priced much lower than their brand-new counterparts, making them an attractive option for budget-conscious consumers.

Environmental Impact

Opting for a refurbished laptop also contributes to environmental sustainability by extending the lifespan of electronic devices. Instead of discarding perfectly functional laptops, refurbishing them reduces electronic waste and conserves valuable resources.

Quality Assurance

Contrary to common misconceptions, refurbished laptops undergo rigorous testing and refurbishment processes to ensure they meet high-quality standards. Most reputable sellers thoroughly inspect, clean, and repair any defects before reselling them, providing customers with reliable products.

Factors to Consider When Buying Refurbished Laptops

Warranty

When purchasing a refurbished laptop, it's essential to inquire about the warranty offered by the seller. A reliable warranty provides peace of mind and protection against potential defects or malfunctions.

Reputation of the Seller

Researching the reputation of the seller is crucial when buying refurbished laptops. Opt for reputable sellers with positive reviews and a history of providing quality refurbished products.

Technical Specifications

Before making a purchase, consider the technical specifications of the refurbished laptop to ensure it meets your requirements. Pay attention to factors such as processor speed, RAM, storage capacity, and battery life.

Popular Brands Offering Refurbished Laptops

Several well-known brands offer refurbished laptops, including Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Apple. These brands provide a wide range of options to suit various needs and preferences, ensuring there's something for everyone.

Refurbished Laptops Market in India

The refurbished laptops market in India is rapidly growing, driven by increasing demand for affordable yet reliable electronic devices. With a thriving e-commerce sector and a growing awareness of refurbished products, more consumers are embracing the idea of purchasing refurbished laptops.

Where to Buy Refurbished Laptops in India

Online Marketplaces

Online marketplaces such as Amazon, Flipkart, and eBay offer a vast selection of refurbished laptops from various sellers. These platforms provide convenient shopping experiences and often feature competitive prices.

Certified Refurbished Stores

Many brands have official certified refurbished stores where customers can purchase refurbished laptops directly from the manufacturer. These stores offer peace of mind, as the products undergo stringent refurbishment processes and come with manufacturer-backed warranties.

Company Websites

Some companies, such as Dell and Lenovo, have dedicated sections on their websites for refurbished products. These websites often feature exclusive deals and discounts on refurbished laptops, making them worth exploring for budget-conscious shoppers. Visit our more refurbished products at Retechie.com.

Tips for Ensuring a Good Purchase Experience

Thoroughly Read Product Descriptions

Before making a purchase, carefully read the product descriptions to understand the condition and specifications of the refurbished laptop.

Check Return Policies

Ensure that the seller offers a flexible return policy in case you're not satisfied with the product or encounter any issues after purchase.

Look for Customer Reviews

Reading customer reviews can provide valuable insights into the quality and reliability of the refurbished laptops offered by a particular seller.

Common Misconceptions About Refurbished Laptops

Poor Quality

Contrary to popular belief, refurbished laptops undergo thorough testing and refurbishment processes to ensure they meet quality standards.

Limited Choices

The refurbished laptops market offers a wide range of choices, including various brands, models, and specifications, catering to diverse consumer preferences.

No Warranty

Many refurbished laptops come with warranties, providing customers with peace of mind and protection against potential defects.

Conclusion

Refurbished laptops offer an excellent opportunity for budget-conscious consumers to acquire high-quality electronic devices at affordable prices. With proper research and consideration of key factors, purchasing a refurbished laptop can be a smart and rewarding investment.

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White Green - Evaluating the Performance of the Australian Stock Market

Over the past year, the performance of the Australian stock market has been less than ideal. Compared to developed countries such as the United States, Europe, and Japan, the Australian stock market has experienced relatively lower gains. This article will analyze the ups and downs of stocks in various industries of the ASX market in 2023 and explore the underlying reasons.

Looking back at 2022, concerns about a potential economic downturn in the United States intensified due to high inflation and the Federal Reserve’s continued interest rate hikes, resulting in the worst annual performance for the three major US stock indices since the 2008 financial crisis. Technology stocks were particularly affected by interest rate sensitivity, with shares of tech giants experiencing widespread declines: Meta fell by approximately 64%, Amazon by about 50%, Apple by around 26%, and Tesla by approximately 65%.

However, in 2023, global investors’ optimism about artificial intelligence (AI) outweighed concerns about the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes, leading to high expectations for the technology sector. This AI boom directly propelled the stock prices of the seven major US technology giants (Magnificent Seven) to triple-digit cumulative gains.

Global enterprises are actively deploying AI, leading to a significant demand for both software and hardware infrastructure, which has positively impacted the stocks of Australian software and hardware technology companies related to AI. In Australia, companies engaged in data processing, cloud services, and other related businesses have performed well. For example, leading Australian data center company NextDC (NXT) and Australia’s largest IT distributor Dicker Data (DDR) have shown outstanding performance.

Furthermore, Australia is home to large enterprise software companies with technological barriers, such as XERO (XRO) and Wisetech (WTC). These companies have positive cash flows and offer essential services to enterprises. As their revenue mainly comes from subscription models, their business performance remains relatively robust.

Next, let’s talk about the crucial resource sector stocks in Australia, namely energy and materials stocks related to metal mining. Overall, energy stocks have performed moderately, somewhat influenced by the decline in energy prices in the latter half of the year. In the materials sector, lithium mining stocks have attracted attention. While lithium mining stocks had seen significant increases in the past, there has been a noticeable decline over the past 12 months, directly correlated with lithium prices.

In terms of the macro environment, there may be some changes this year, but they are not expected to be particularly significant. The economic environment in Australia is still slowing down, making it difficult for the Reserve Bank of Australia to change the high-interest-rate environment in the short term, and inflation may remain relatively high.

There is still considerable uncertainty about whether there will be interest rate cuts this year.

Given this situation, we believe there are two aspects worth paying attention to in the Australian stock market this year:

Firstly, technology stocks still have potential for the upcoming year. Particularly, technology companies related to AI may benefit from the global demand growth for AI technology. Australian software and hardware technology companies have some competitiveness in this regard, and with the continuous development of AI technology, they are expected to achieve growth.

Secondly, resource stocks, especially those in the energy and materials sectors, particularly metal mining stocks, are worth considering. Although energy stocks face some challenges, energy demand still exists and may remain relatively stable in the foreseeable future. Additionally, the performance of metal mining stocks is closely related to global metal prices, and demand for metals remains relatively high.

Of course, stock market performance is influenced by various factors, including economic conditions, global market dynamics, geopolitical risks, and more. Therefore, investors should consider various factors comprehensively and engage in appropriate risk management when investing in the stock market.

Overall, it is expected that the Australian stock market may continue to be influenced by both technology and resource stocks this year. However, predicting the future trends of the stock market is challenging, and investors should make decisions based on their investment goals, risk tolerance, and investment knowledge while exercising caution. It is advisable for investors to consult with professional financial advisors before making investment decisions in the stock market.

White Green is a highly esteemed investment analyst, renowned in the industry for his exceptional macro-strategic investments. His unique investment philosophy and outstanding investment strategies have propelled him to become a rising star and source of pride in the Australian federal market.

As an outstanding investment analyst, White Green excels in quantitative portfolio management and data analysis to guide investment decisions. He emphasizes value growth and utilizes portfolio diversification for risk hedging management. Successfully guiding teams and clients through the financial crises of 2008 and 2020, he has generated substantial returns for clients.

White Green’s investment achievements are not only attributed to his excellent investment strategies but also to his forward-thinking market insights. He deeply understands the behavior patterns of market participants and excels at capturing market trends and opportunities. His global macro strategy enables him to grasp the pulse of the global economy, providing unique insights for investment decisions.

White Green is a prominent figure in today’s investment community. His macro-strategic investment approach and outstanding investment results make him a role model for many investors. Whether professional or individual investors, they can draw valuable experience from his investment philosophy and strategies to guide their investment journey.

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