In Defense of Anagorism

political economy in the non-market, non-state sector

Unsubscribe as a service

Posted the following as a comment on What is the difference between IaaS, PaaS, SaaS en UaaS? on the website of a company called Nucleus. Re-posting it here, because re-posting to the present blog is now my standard operating procedure, and particularly because as a comment there, it’s awaiting moderation, so I figure if I don’t stash a copy somewhere, it could conceivably be lost to the sands of time. Here it is:

Uptime as a service sounds to my ears like a rather cynical euphemism for some kind of a “fast lane” for sale in an environment in which “downtime as a disservice” is one of the antifeatures designed into the default configuration. Admittedly, I’m somewhat jaded, believing as I do that (in the arena of informational goods, anyway) all monetization stems from value subtraction. I guess services in the -aaS category as becoming as cliche as whimsical C-level executive titles being used as some kind of happytalk statement. I also must confess that the way I found this page is by searching the string “uaas”. Seems right and proper that this should be in such a search result, but what I was trying to find out was whether it had yet occurred to anyone else to use “UaaS” as an abbreviation for “unsubscribe as a service,” something that (in effect) has hit the TV airwaves here in 2021 in a deluge of ads, with seemingly (at least) dozens of vendors offering, in effect, One Subscription To Rule Them All.

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