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Our guest this hour:

Eric Griffith, Features Editor at PCMag.com

Gian in Winter Park, Florida listens online and is calling via the App and asked: "Given the rise of many streaming apps and companies, we're starting to see a whole bunch of them pop up. Given how many there are, do you feel there is a comparison to be made with the dot com bubble and how when that crashed, many companies went out of business because of that? What are your thoughts?"

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Gian, Quibi is probably feeling that way considering how their rollout has been.

The saving grace of the many streaming services seems to be that so far they don’t have a minimum commitment, which is something that will probably change as more of them get into what is a fairly limited field. How many people do you know that kept their HBO streaming subscription after Game of Thrones ended?

Having said that, the market is bloated and it’s hard to imagine that piracy won’t start to creep back up soon.

No one really wants to pay a full subscription for a single show they’re interested in and having to pay 4 to 4 different services to watch exactly 4 shows isn’t too appealing either.

For a while they each thought that they could set themselves apart by making their own content but, realistically, most of the content they make is not good. They sometimes hit upon a good show, but most of what they put out is not interesting to most subscribers and they may start to lose them as they realize that they’re not using these services that looked cheap, before signing up for 10 of them at the same time.

Lee in Windsor, Ontario listens on AM800 CKLW and asked: "I have an iPad but use this “clunker” computer with windows xp. It says Google Chrome updates cant be received because of this. Not concerned about much stuff because I only use this for home fun and not for banking. Just saying hi to family in florida, etc.... Should i be concerned when something pops up sying I have to replace the browser? I really don't want to pay for anything and have been OK for a long time."

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Well Lee, it’s not good, you’re missing security updates and you’re likely far more vulnerable than users on supported systems.

Having said that, Microsoft stopped supporting XP in 2014 and Google dropped Chrome support for XP in 2016, so your situation is probably not about to change. You’re not in a great place, but you haven’t been for a while.

If you’re going to continue to use an operating system that old, you won’t find many if any browsers that still support it, having said that, Microsoft not supporting it either is probably a bigger problem.