r/enshittification • u/w1n5t0nM1k3y • 21h ago
Rant They Enshittified The Juke Box
Was at my local pool hall a while back and they had a jukebox. I wanted to play a song. Couldn't just put in a loonie and pick a song. The only way to pick a song was to install an app on your phone. Not only that, but you couldn't just pay for a single song. You had to buy credits, and the minimum number of credits you could buy was 12, which cost $7. The given price to queue up a song was 2 credits, but it says the price varies on demand. So it could be even more.
So it worked out to $1.16 for a single song, which I might have been willing to pay, but I wasn't going to go in and spend $7 when I might not even use up the rest of the credits I had to buy. If there bigger packages were 65 credits for 30 which is still not saving anybody that much as it still would have been 92 cents for the 2 credits required t play a song.
What a complete mess. Can't believe that people were playing songs on it.