So this is some bollocks. Guess I’ll be cancelling our plan since it’s only used by two of us.

Current price $17.99/month, new price $32.99/month.

If they boiled the frog better I would probably have accepted a $5/month price rise, and then another later… But close to doubling in one go is a no from me dawg.

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  • roguetrick@kbin.social
    32·
    1 year ago

    I’m curious what’s driving this revenue rush at Alphabet. It almost feels like something internal, like they’re trying to make it actually self sufficient based on cloud pricing.

    • galoisghost@aussie.zone
      241·
      1 year ago

      It’s not just Alphabet it’s cloud based companies across the board and basically VC money is drying up because it can be secured on 0% interest loans anymore

      • roguetrick@kbin.social
        71·
        1 year ago

        Alphabet would be less impacted by interest rates or VC money since they’re a megacorp. I’m curious if for them they are afraid of not being competitive enough if they get trust busted.

    • Seraphin 🐬@pawb.social
      22·
      1 year ago

      It’s happening across a lot of industries, especially tech. During covid line went up very fast. Post-covid line stopped going up fast, but companies are desperate to keep it going up fast. Otherwise it would count as a slowdown in year-on-year growth and we can never ever have that (/s).

      • been_jamming@lemm.ee
        12·
        1 year ago

        Companies then: Let’s make money!

        Companies now: Let’s make more money faster! Our graph of profit must concave up!

        Companies 100 years from now: Let’s increase the rate at which the rate at which our growth in profit increases increases!

      • roguetrick@kbin.social
        6·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think it’ll happen willingly. They don’t want it to be a drain on their cloud business and they don’t want it to use AWS either.