Why the hell does netflix has so many upvotes? i would pay triple their max subscription fee for their content!
For me it has to be Google, yeah FB too for obvious reasons but Google got too big and their products have been showing a detrimental pattern. They will be around but people are using tiktok and friends in lieu of youtube and their main revenue source is ADs via search and I see many good competitors in that space. New apps and enganging services don't really rely on google search. The main spenders are merchants and being able to get virtual foot traffic without Google's help is getting easier by the day.
Both Google and FB (Alphabet/Meta) are clouded by the arrogance an deep pocket brings where they thing their cash will somehow overcome the law of diminishing returns. Their historical predecessors like AT&T, IBM & Cisco are good examples. You can tell by how they treat their customers. Apple and Amazon know better, they keep their status because they know their deep pockets are always vulnerable and they need to treat their users very well even if they have to treat their employees like shit. I thing google and fb will just keep investing in new companies, lawyers and lobbyists to rhyme with history.
Example: I thing GCP is superior but I would bet on AWS support more than GCP any day! I think android can be customized to provide a better security and private environment but I would bet having a good UX with iOS any day.
I contributed to this. My first thought was that netflix doesn't really have special sauce anymore. They exist in a highly competitive market and lack the back catalog of established media companies. As a result, they end up paying way too much money for both new shows, and established ones.
On the other side of the coin, they can't compete with the volume of free content that is created by YouTube.
It's pretty easy to start a streaming service today, and many specialized streaming services have been successful.
In my person experience, my NF usage has gone to zero, being replaced with YouTube, Nebula, and HBOMax, with the occasional hop onto Prime for the odd rental. And I was as big of a NF diehard as any; I was paying for streaming since they started offering it.
Youtube is uset generated content, can't compete with netflix. I used prime for a while and switched to netflix. I am joyfully overwhelmed by the volume and quality of content on netflix. I don't have to rent or buy anything, it is all just there to watch! If anything I resent Disney for not going all in on netlflix instead of doing Disney+. After a few weeks on prime I ran out of interesting content. With Netflix I am binging multi season shows and I still find new movies and seasons as they get released right after the previous one. And they actually ask for your up/down vote instead of relying in ML like with prime (which is terrible btw)
> Youtube is uset generated content, can't compete with netflix.
Yes, but those many top YouTubers make great videos and were looking for a way to transition to paid content. I feel, if Netflix leadership had the right chops, they would have seen an opportunity here and spent a tiny fraction of their massive content budget to court some of these creators and have them make expanded videos for Netflix. Instead, these creators banded together and made their own streaming platform which receives free advertisement on YouTube.
Amazon and Facebook are by far the largest competitors in the area, and Google and Apple have more stable ecosystems since its users cannot easily move between Android and iOS.
There's nothing like that for Netflix: its amount of unique subscribers is within the same order of magnitude as Amazon Prime Video and Disney+, and as long as you aren't halfway through a series unsubscribing is easy.
I think Netflix is one underwhelming season of content during an economic crisis away from failing.
I cancelled my Netflix sub as they continued raising the price while lowering the quality of content. There is no reason to carry a Netflix sub year round. I pay for one month and catch up on anything they made worth watching (not that much), and then check in next year.
I don't know about that, I pay for mediocre content on Sling for a lot more than NF and NF had been doing a lot of content outside of the US (spain, turkey, korea, etc...) if anything I think a downturn will force people to just netflix+internet.
For me it has to be Google, yeah FB too for obvious reasons but Google got too big and their products have been showing a detrimental pattern. They will be around but people are using tiktok and friends in lieu of youtube and their main revenue source is ADs via search and I see many good competitors in that space. New apps and enganging services don't really rely on google search. The main spenders are merchants and being able to get virtual foot traffic without Google's help is getting easier by the day.
Both Google and FB (Alphabet/Meta) are clouded by the arrogance an deep pocket brings where they thing their cash will somehow overcome the law of diminishing returns. Their historical predecessors like AT&T, IBM & Cisco are good examples. You can tell by how they treat their customers. Apple and Amazon know better, they keep their status because they know their deep pockets are always vulnerable and they need to treat their users very well even if they have to treat their employees like shit. I thing google and fb will just keep investing in new companies, lawyers and lobbyists to rhyme with history.
Example: I thing GCP is superior but I would bet on AWS support more than GCP any day! I think android can be customized to provide a better security and private environment but I would bet having a good UX with iOS any day.