The Morning After: Hbo Max Is Going To Get More Expensive

As is often nan case, nan tech news tide is retired aft Apple’s iPhone 17 event. (Did we do a dedicated newsletter connected each nan announcements? Yes, yes we did.)

Before nan weekend, though, there’s still much to publication about. But let’s commencement pinch nan not-great tech news. David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, plans to make HBO much expensive and passwords a batch harder to share. These were portion of his comments astatine a Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference, which sounds awful.

The main thrust of his statement was that HBO Max’s contented is truthful bully that Zaslav thinks he should complaint a batch much for it.

— Mat Smith

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