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by ripharamberip 460 days ago
Uh, how about they want to make money? And they have to consistently pay their developers and other bills? Is this a serious question?
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prepend 460 days ago
Plex is a fork of xbmc/kodi. Did they pay those developers?

We all have bills to pay. Upping prices because I want more money isn’t a very understandable reason.

It’s not like we have any visibility into Plex’s costs. So it’s just as likely that the owner wants more profit than they have costs.

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carlosjobim 454 days ago
All pirate TV businesses first and foremost work for their own profit. There's little reason to expect anything different for Plex.
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polski-g 459 days ago
Well the product was fine 10 years ago. They could have stopped development and called it feature complete.
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joshstrange 459 days ago
Completely untrue.

Things that were added in the last 10 years off the top of my head:

* 10 years of updates to the iOS/Android/GoogleTV/AppleTV/Mac/Windows/etc clients (that doesn't come for free)

* OpenSubtitle search built in

* Intro detection

* Credit detection

* Watch Together

* LiveTV/DVR support

* PlexAmp

* PlexDash

And more that I'm not thinking of.

You can say "I don't care about those features", which is a tired take IMHO, but there are plenty of features they have added to keep up with the online streaming platforms.

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