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> The original statement was obvious hyperbole You'd be surprised, I know many folks that are convinced over half the country uses Netflix. Filter bubbles can
by losteric 10y ago
> The original statement was obvious hyperbole
You'd be surprised, I know many folks that are convinced over half the country uses Netflix. Filter bubbles can heavily influence those perceptions.
> There's five people in my house using my account, all immediate relatives.
My dorm shared an account in college... we had 8 people on the same account. 5 now have their own accounts, including myself, and the rest stopped using Netflix. Conversely, my parents and their neighbors are DVD-only Netflix customers.
I think the truth is somewhere between 100 million and 35 million streamers, which still puts it at (late) "early adoption". In that context the spread of streaming exclusives is a little worrying... "Stream anything at any time for a flat rate" is a very disruptive vision. "Some services have some of what you want" is a much weaker sell.