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If it's called NASA Plus, how is it free? The "plus" means it goes a step beyond their free content and into a paid tier.
Don't get me wrong this is absolutely fantastic I adore NASA and space, but they're just be some hidden cost? Otherwise it wouldn't be a streaming service called NASA Plus, right?
Notepad++ enters the chat
It's actually Notepad+, plus it's free
No, it is Notepad++ and it is called like that because it is written in C++.
Are you sure C++ isn't just C+, plus it's free?
They say it's free but that's how they get ya. It'll only cost your soul!
Maybe the real cost was the friends we lost along the way.
Woosh :p
Looks like they refer to adding their Science wing into the streaming, too.
In this crazy capitalist world peiple started forgetting that public services can be free, like, for real :D
*Paid for with taxes, not free.
That goes without saying.
It's free for the end consumer and everyone knows that it is paid with taxes. So saying free is just easier.
But the Libertarians always have to say it. Nevermind that anything free from a corporation is paid for though advertising, or selling your data, or folded into the item cost, or future purchases, so by this strict definition that “someone is paying for it” means literally nothing is ever free.
It has to be said EVERY TIME someone mentions that public services are offered at no charge.
If I need to pay taxes anyway, at least I prefer to have the investment returned back to me in some way, and this seems like a nice way to do so.
Jokes on you, I'm not an American so it really is free for me!
Well it's free for me!
Everyone knows that... that's what they mean by free, free to use. Why do you think people don't know this? Did you just figure it out or something? Are you seriously that slow?
I don't think everyone sat down and agreed to that being what plus means. It's like labeling food as organic, it means nothing. It's just a name. Odd thing to obsess over, you'll get nowhere trying to understand marketing people, just let it go.
What they are adding is a more condensed experience accessing NASA content and making it easier for casual viewers to access. The more people paying attention to science the better. I think this is a fantastic move from NASA
Why do you think the organic label for food means nothing?
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2012/03/22/organic-101-what-usda-organic-label-means
Compared to the standards for organic in civilized countries, that's basically nothing.
Do you know how many companies use just organic, and not "usda certified organic"
Most
I like how confident you are about your answer.
However, perusing the USDA website one comes across this set of "strongly" worded guidelines:
Apparently, if a company does mislabel its products, it is liable to be prosecuted by the Federal trade commission.
That word probably exists in the same article you originally linked.
But many actually don't do it which is why they don't use the USDA certified
You realize I can slap the word organic on anything, and it isn’t using the certified organic label… right? Want some “organic ATX motherboards?” I gotchu.
If you're not afraid of the legal system why not slap a Disney logo on there too?
plus just means more I think, they're adding to their service so it's "plus"
just because that's usually a hook to get you to pay more doesn't mean that's now the definition of the word
sure. However "plus" means that something is additional to something else. And the question here is what is the basic product that makes this one be the additional
You're really trying to make this more complicated than it is. Should they just call it NASA? NASA Streaming? NASA VOD?
It's just a catchy name.
ok, so the word "plus" is used to indicate that it is a streaming service. Got it
Sure, why not. That's all it means in the context of Disney+.
From their generic FAQ:
from my limited perspective, the word "plus" is to indicate the rest studios/companies that are included in the Disney (parent) company
That's actually what it has kinda came to mean. Lots of Streaming services are called "Plus", even if they don't have a separate non-free version.
They're selling our usage data to aliens to pay for server costs
What do you expect? "We're not hosting an intergalactic kegger down here!"
What other "plus" apps have a non plus version though? Stone Disney+ it's just become "the thing" that streaming services go by now
Disney had a several tv channels and an app that was free for subscribers when they launched Disney+ but I don't know if they still have the old app.
The "free" apps require a cable subscription, so they aren't really free.
Sure, maybe "included for subscribers" is probably a better description.
Mauve for this you'll need to have an account? This would already help nasa market products towards you and this is a good value they can get without you paying anything.
Mauve you're right, mauve you're not, mauve I'll see for myself.
*mauvself *mauvou're
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