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Things that keep me with Netflix: - I can watch their shows on any device, including my chromecast (unlike Amazon Prime Video) and linux laptops. - I don't li

Things that keep me with Netflix: - I can watch their shows on any device, including my chromecast (unlike Amazon Prime Video) and linux laptops. - I don't live in the US, so most of these alternatives just plain don't exist for me, and the local versions of them are mostly awful. Sometimes I feel like these doomsaying articles (cfe also Uber) are coming from a hopelessly American perspective. They wonder "why is this company still so successful around the world when X, Y, and Z American competitors exist?" Well, mostly because the rest of us don't have those options and so the one that actually takes a global perspective wins by default.

moonka 10y ago
>- I can watch their shows on any device, including my chromecast (unlike Amazon Prime Video) and linux laptops. In addition to the availability of the app, it's a much nicer app than Hulu or Amazon provides. I saw this as someone who mainly uses streaming on a Fire tablet and Fire sticks. The main benefit of prime over netflix was that you could download videos for flights, but netflix recently added that capability.
Nexxxeh 10y ago
Both Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have their issues with different devices. Especially on the PC, where Netflix only does 4K over "an HDCP 2.2 compliant connection to a 4K capable display, Intel's 7th generation Core CPU [Kaby Lake], and the latest Windows updates." Although they have now apparently added support for the Netflix App, so you're not still stuck using Edge. APV doesn't do 4K on the PC at all. Although both now support Linux in some form or other, which is nice.