I feel nowadays every company, app or website has a subscription service they want you to pay for..
For the most simple photo edit apps to supermarkets and car dealers... In the past they just simply sell you a product and be done with it
Not sure if it's an improvement..
And I don't even mention all forgotten subscriptions that's practially thrown away money
Phone companies go even a step further and try selling you 'insurance' next to your mobile phone subscription
Most of the times it simply doesn't work and 'it's not covered' so you pay for nothing, again
When I was working for telecom company I was honest about this to customers, I just hate selling stuff that does nothing
@stux I had a Samsung S3 that died just out of warranty; AT&T asked me to handle it as an insurance claim. I protested this was not an insurance matter but they said it was only way forward.
@sullybiker wow... just that!
@stux I got a 200 dollar Huawei phone for the remainder of the contract and that thing remains one of the best smartphones I ever had. I should have done that first time around, rather than playing the ripoff handset game where you give 1000 dollars to some cunting telco for a service they barely provide
@stux The whole thing is an anti-consumer racket.