consumer-unfriendly

Unfortunately, a more market driven approach to retail pricing is often very consumer-unfriendly because it means your bills will be very unpredictable.

Google, for a company that reputes to perform services, is probably the single most consumer-unfriendly company on the planet.

Robot taxis are hardly a staple one needs to exist, people have been easily living without robot taxis, and if the price is consumer-unfriendly, they will simply not use them.

It just results in some pretty consumer-unfriendly offerings, at the expense of readership and penetration...

Anyone who wants to create consumer-unfriendly DRM-protected CAD files now needs to jump through hoops and pay fees to Myhrvold's company.

Youtube is just starting to do the consumer-unfriendly thing (but it's got a long ways to go before piracy comes out competitive).

On iOS, Apple made a consumer-unfriendly change when they disabled virtual printing, e.g.

There's no way to change this, and it's a very consumer-unfriendly practice.

That said, they're a firmly consumer-unfriendly model, for those very reasons.

I'll mention: A lot of these are consumer-unfriendly in some ways (e.g.

The most successful participants in the car insurance leads marketplace (and any leads marketplace TBH) do things that are inherently consumer-unfriendly to achieve as high margins as they do.

They've done even more consumer-unfriendly things before.

Worse examples are useful when someone starts by saying silly things like "probably the single most consumer-unfriendly company on the planet."

They can put any sort of consumer-unfriendly terms they want in there and then say "if you don't like it, you're free to go to our competitors" of which there is only one and they are colluding.