Want HBO without cable? Hope you like Apples
If you want the opinion of this reporter, the cable business model worked better back when the TV was the only device in your house that lit up and showed pictures. Since it was your only source of entertainment besides books, it made sense to pay for as many channels as possible. Nowadays our attention is divided between so many devices, websites and apps that most cable networks go unviewed, especially those networks where 90% of their programming is super-cheap reality shows and the other 10% is infomercials. Not only are many cable channels useless, but the prices demanded for them are outrageous. Something is going to give soon. And it’s giving already. The various corporations in the cable industry, all one of them, have been rocked by repeated concessions to a growing throng of consumers who no longer feel it’s worth it to pay nearly $200 a month for 5,000 channels they’ll never watch, just to get two or three they will. New internet streaming programs, most of them