they still cannot make enough money from subscriptions
Who says?
The fact they are shutting it down?
Sky Analogue was still making shitloads when your mob kicked me off shut it down
Its not uncommon, when you get young graduates involved in business decision making roles, to close profitable product lines or business units.
Migrate to digital you mean? To increase capacity
The 2 could (and did) run side by side
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They made a schoolboy error of assuming that everyone on the older service would pay £100 to 'upgrade' and pay the more expensive subscription for an inferior service when the, still profitable, old service was shut down.
I suspect TM are doing similar, purely becuase, although its likely still to be profitable (based on the fact the expensive infrastructure will have to remain), its not growing. Growth is the be-all and end-all in a public company. Profits mean nothing.
So, I maintain, as somebody has used TM Oracle daily for the past few years, rather than someone who has briefly encountered it, its a shame its going. But ho-hum.