Exactly if you don't want it, then don't pay for it. I'm not surprised to see Disney mentioned here though. My kids have absolutely no idea who any of the Disney characters are, If we ever go into a Disney store they are totally uninterested in anything in there, and have absolutely no desire to go to Disneyland, Why because they've never seen anything Disney because its all broadcast on a subscription only channels, unlike myself who grew up on Disney broadcast on free to air channels and wanted everything/anything Disney as a kid, my kids are unlikely to ever spend a penny on anything Disney. So do they get more from the subscription based content or are they missing a trick?
We had a look at the Disney site not long back and again my kids soon wandered off to play with characters they new and recognised on the other channels. Disney is losing a generation of kids by forcing subscriptions to view their stuff. Soon there will be no way back.
I'm not about to subscribe to anything Disney or any other children's content provider, as there's plenty of quality free to access kids entertainment about. Hannah Barbara, Warner Bros. cartoon network etc (all who provide their entertainment on free to air channels) will all end up getting far more out of me than Disney ever will and I don't have to pay to access their content.
As for news sites, it would just be ridiculous, how hard is it to find news for free elsewhere, the first to charge will be the first to sink.
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Exactly if you don't want it, then don't pay for it. I'm not surprised to see Disney mentioned here though. My kids have absolutely no idea who any of the Disney characters are, If we ever go into a Disney store they are totally uninterested in anything in there, and have absolutely no desire to go to Disneyland, Why because they've never seen anything Disney because its all broadcast on a subscription only channels, unlike myself who grew up on Disney broadcast on free to air channels and wanted everything/anything Disney as a kid, my kids are unlikely to ever spend a penny on anything Disney. So do they get more from the subscription based content or are they missing a trick? We had a look at the Disney site not long back and again my kids soon wandered off to play with characters they new and recognised on the other channels. Disney is losing a generation of kids by forcing subscriptions to view their stuff. Soon there will be no way back. I'm not about to subscribe to anything Disney or any other children's content provider, as there's plenty of quality free to access kids entertainment about. Hannah Barbara, Warner Bros. cartoon network etc (all who provide their entertainment on free to air channels) will all end up getting far more out of me than Disney ever will and I don't have to pay to access their content. As for news sites, it would just be ridiculous, how hard is it to find news for free elsewhere, the first to charge will be the first to sink.
It might be nice if there was a way for applications to hook into a global OS framework that allows them to check for and apply updates,
what you are asking for here is called package management. Windows is one of the few OS's that hasn't worked this one out yet