Saying they have taxi's in SF is a bit hyperbolic. I have an invite to that program and it's
- only after 10pm
- used such an odd slice of the city I not only can't get picked up, it doesn't GO any where I go.
I would love to use either of these programs both for the novelty and because I think Autonomous driving is great, but I literally can't use the program I do have access to.
And to compound this after doing a half ass job of what OP has done, I recently moved my custom google apps free domain to have a second reception domain i use JUST for this with a `.email` TLD (side note: the amount of tools that don't see modern TLD's as valid is enraging)>
I made the (maybe poor) choice of donating to political campaigns before the last US election using these emails
- `Biden-campaign@`
- `democrats@`
- `<specific local race@`
All of those I've had to unsubscribe from about 2-3 dozen total OTHER email lists as those emails are literally sold/given out to other campaigns. the biden one being the worst.
Also if you have your own business you'll start getting solicitations, LOTS of solicitations. And god forbid your email is on an old resume, or somewhere else.
Now, is any of this "technically" spam? Maybe but not really. Do I consider it worthless? yes.
But to site your last specific one. I did a search for an address I know was on a compromised product. Specifically a game Heroes of Newerth. They were hacked in I believe 2015 and the list was sold. My email was my old method `[email protected]`. I get like 20~ emails to that a year and all of them go to spam or are flagged as spam automatically.
It's more than that: it's the fact that all of the payment info is there. Every step, field entry, hurdle you put infront of a consumer is usually associated a significant increase in "cart abandonment". By apple allowing you to just apple pay straight in and avoid CC, and billing address etc, they are decreasing the hurdles and increasing the conversion.
Is it worth 30%? In 2013? Maybe In 2021? Definitely not. It should be closer to 5%.
That being said I do like using Apple subscriptions because they make it REALLY easy to cancel them, all in one place, something that can't be said for a lot of other services.