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“I finally decided to try the free offer with part of my birthday gift. I was so excited!! I Set up acct only to learn AFTERWARDS I NEED IOS 17 WHICH WILL REQUIRE I BUY A NEW IPHONE. My phone CANNOT BE UPDATED TO IOS17. THAT IS A LOT FOR A PODCAST SUBSCRIPTION!!
Now I get to jump through more hoops to CANCEL IT!! Unfortunate for me that birthday gift wasn’t enough to buy a new phone. YOU GUYS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PROFESSIONALS. EVERYTHING NOW IS A RECURRING SUBSCRIPTION WHICH IS GENERALLY MUCH HARDER TO CANCEL.
STILL, I am so grateful for the period you offered your podcasts for FREE!! There were a few years back in the day when all podcasts were free but they mostly have all gone the way you have. I wish you hadn’t and here’s why: For years I was intimidated by the name of your publication and never thought I would understand most of what you discussed but the podcast was a must listen for every segment that dropped!! And I learned so much and I understood all of it. I waited hungrily for each episode to drop every week.
Paywalls, though now deemed to be required by most podcast publishers, have the unfortunate effect of limiting important knowledge to those few who can afford to PAY ALOT for news. I don’t understand why you didn’t just use ads? So much is lost to so many who are already so limited in life. Lost even to those who haven’t time to read your magazine if they can even afford to subscribe.
We all understand that No one works for free but your original podcast exposed so many to things they may never have heard any other way. Nothing against the Intelligence but it is not the juicy science and economic news and interviews I so will miss.
Sadly, the News overall has become another elite product, available only to those few who can afford to pay ALOT or who have time & ability to visit a library. It isn’t like there is someone leaving their copy on the lunch counter for the next person to read anymore. Who even sits down for lunch? Living on a fixed income, I can’t afford to subscribe to everything I am hungry to read and now that I finally have a bit more time to do just that, everything is gone behind a paywall.
I couldn’t change the stars for rating. If I could you would get a -50 for the misleading promotion of your subscription service. REALLY BAD JOB ON THAT GUYS.”
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12/03/23
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