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[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 63 points 2 days ago (24 children)

Escaping vendor lock-in. It's why people hate the cloud when it used to be the answer for everything. You make a good product that can only be used with your hardware/software, whatever, and people run from that shit because it's abused more often than not.

Apple is the biggest example of this. Synology is getting worse and worse. Plex not far behind either.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I’d say plex is up there. “Want to use your hardware and bandwidth to view your own files? Pay us!”

[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nothing wrong with having to pay for software if the prices are reasonable. It's a product like any other, with real people working on it.

[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The shitty part is taking features people already had access to and locking them away all while spying on you.

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