{"id":18076,"date":"2017-06-01T14:23:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T18:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18076"},"modified":"2017-06-01T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T18:23:04","slug":"the-subscription-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/01\/the-subscription-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"The Subscription Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2017\/05\/the-subscription-paradox\/\">Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2017\/05\/the-subscription-paradox\/\">\n<p>What makes someone a happy magazine subscriber, newsletter reader, or television viewer is the feeling that you&rsquo;re consuming <em>all<\/em> of something you enjoy. You get to the end and still wish there were more, making you anticipate the next installment.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>But then there&rsquo;s another, less obvious danger zone: People who like your stuff but just can&rsquo;t finish it all. You&rsquo;d think that this shouldn&rsquo;t matter, that if you only ever consume half of everything but enjoy it all, that should be good enough. But it&rsquo;s not. Most people <em>hate<\/em> feeling that they&rsquo;re not using everything they&rsquo;re paying for. (I know the feeling, <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2014\/09\/the-dropbox-terabyte-conundrum\/\">at least when it comes to Dropbox storage<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Snell: What makes someone a happy magazine subscriber, newsletter reader, or television viewer is the feeling that you&rsquo;re consuming all of something you enjoy. You get to the end and still wish there were more, making you anticipate the next installment. [&#8230;] But then there&rsquo;s another, less obvious danger zone: People who like your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1421,101,993,946,112],"class_list":["post-18076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-app-subscriptions","tag-business","tag-macworld","tag-magazine","tag-podcasts"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18077,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18076\/revisions\/18077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}