How-To Geek: Some Raspberry Pi Devices Are Getting a Price Hike. “Raspberry Pi has announced price increases of $5 to $10 on some of its 4GB and 8GB devices, including popular Compute Modules and the Raspberry Pi 500 unit. The primary culprit is the unprecedented global demand for memory, which shot up the demand roughly 120% compared to a year ago.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/07/how-to-geek-some-raspberry-pi-devices-are-getting-a-price-hike/
Cancellations of #PayTV subscription plans with #Disney, #Hulu & #ESPN shot up 436% late last month as conservative corporate appeasers #Indefinately suspended late night host #JimmyKimmel for commenting on Amurica's latest fascination with deifying the #RWNJ rhetoric of #CharlieKirk .
The 1.7 million #customers that reached out to cancel their autobilled plans will deprive the network of at least $25 million a month in fees, and while some say harrumph, that is barely 1% of Disney's global numbers, trust me, any TV network that loses over a million #viewers in a day has something to worry about. Basic math reveals that by the end of this year, that #cancelled #subscription #revenue adds up quick, and will total at least $100 million in dough that Disney is not laughing about collecting anymore in #fiscal 2026.
Disney's numbers in the #streaming game were not looking particularly good to begin with, and at the peak of their subscription #viewership with over 235 million subscriptions worldwide back in 2022, shortly after the launch of its streaming service #DisneyPlus, the company still had quarterly losses of $1.5 Billion... Shortly after trying a big discount to lure new subscribers, Disney then announced in 2023 that there was over 4 million #cancellations of its streaming services when price rose. It was noted that despite having high launch numbers, they still made less than half as much money per subscriber as #Netflix who averaged $10.80 in revenue per subscriber at that time.
In their last earnings report (before cutting off this particular data stream to investors), Disney published that their #ARPU had grown ( avg revenue per user) in US to around $8 per user. Overall ARPU remains flat or has shrunk due to, as one Disney exec said during Q2 earnings, “lower advertising revenue.”
According to reporter Marisa Kabas, founder of The Handbasket, cancellations spiked between Sept. 17 and 23 across Disney+, Hulu and ESPN. Kabas wrote, “Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancellations during the week of 9/17/2025-9/23/2025 at Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.”
Kabas added that the figure represented a 436% increase compared with usual losses during the same period. Disney was also preparing a subscription price increase, which was only formally announced shortly after Kimmel’s reinstatement. Her source suggested that Disney rushed the show’s return to soften the fallout ahead of the programming #pricehikes.
Though the Kimmel show is now back on air, it is reportedly uncertain how many of those cancelled subscribers will actually return.
Price Increases on Xbox, PS5, and Switch Make Game Consoles Less Accessible
The gaming industry is facing a challenging time as the prices for major consoles such as Xbox, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch continue to rise. Microsoft recently raised the price of the Xbox Series X by $150, reaching $649.99, while the Xbox Series S is now priced at $399.99. This follows prev... [More info]
Watch out, #laptop buyers – #RAM-based #pricehikes could be in the cards soon and they might be big
https://www.techradar.com/computing/laptops/watch-out-laptop-buyers-ram-based-price-hikes-could-be-in-the-cards-soon-and-they-might-be-big
https://biz.newdaily.co.kr/site/data/html/2025/09/22/2025092200119.html
Tariff-related price hikes begin to impact U.S. consumers
After months of delays, tariffs imposed by the Trump administration are now driving up inflation, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for August rising by 2.9% from the previous year. This marks the sharpest increase since January, when Trump's second term began. Goods heavily reliant on imports hav... [More info]
#HBOMax users warned of #pricehikes and #passwordcrackdowns as #WarnerBros' CEO eyes ‘real opportunity’ to charge more
Search Engine Journal: Google Quietly Raised Ad Prices, Court Orders More Transparency. “Federal court documents show Google raised search ad prices through small adjustments that advertisers couldn’t distinguish from normal auction fluctuations. The details are based on Judge Amit P. Mehta’s remedies opinion, which states that Google used internal ‘pricing knobs’ to increase ad prices by […]
#Spotify announces new round of #pricehikes – and #shareprice jumps
Engadget: Anthropic is rate limiting Claude Code, blaming some users for never turning it off. “Anthropic has introduced new weekly rate limits on its Claude Code tool for AI assistance with coding tasks. The move comes shortly after the AI company quietly began implementing rate limits on the Claude Code service, which is an agentic side of the AI chatbot that is capable of reading code, […]
The Register: Congress tries to outlaw AI that jacks up prices based on what it knows about you. “Two Democratic members of Congress, Greg Casar (D-TX) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI,) have introduced legislation in the US House of Representatives to ban the use of AI surveillance to set prices and wages.”
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