3 ms·

As a Netflix customer and happy Apple non-customer, I'm scared to death of Apple buying Netflix. So much for openness and competition! So much for cross-platf

by zeveb 10y ago

As a Netflix customer and happy Apple non-customer, I'm scared to death of Apple buying Netflix. So much for openness and competition! So much for cross-platform support! And the worst thing is, the great mass of Apple ecosystem inhabitants wouldn't even see the problem.

johneth 10y ago
You realise that Apple Music is also available on a competing platform (Android)? Netflix's success is, in large part, because of it's ubiquity in the platforms where it's available. If Apple ever bought Netflix, I doubt they'd remove it from other platforms.
- lowtolerance 10y ago
  Apple Music is available on Android and Windows. It would make absolutely no sense for them to buy Netflix only to cut out the vast majority of Netflix users by making it only available on Apple's own platforms.
mundoayala 10y ago
Although it's not the greatest example. When Apple bought Beats and rebranded to Apple Music they still publish to Android via Google Play Store.. so they've shown cross-platform support?
cat199 10y ago
Netflix imho nowadays is trying to be the HBO of cord-cutters - In the primarily mail-dvd days, they were like the awesome video store that has everything; netflix online only has a (admittedly large) handful of titles, with ever more emphasis on the ever increasing quantity of self-produced titles... While I was once very pro-netflix as a consumer, imagning one day that I'd be able to watch anything at all ever produced with a low subscription - I'm more ambivalent now imagining the future when the dvd rentals (and associated vast library) are dropped entirely and never digitized..
- 1123581321 10y ago
  Physical DVD rentals don't require the expensive licensing deals with individual publishers that digital rental and streaming do. Netflix would offer every movie available in DVD if allowed.
heavymark 10y ago
If Apple were to buy Netflix, which I don't think would make any sense from a business perspective. That being said, the only thing that would make even less sense would be for Apple to buy Netflix and then make it no longer available on the web or any device other than Mac. That would make 0 sense. And I'm sure you are aware Apple Music for instance is built and supports both iOS and Android.

by zeveb 10y ago

johneth 10y ago

You realise that Apple Music is also available on a competing platform (Android)? Netflix's success is, in large part, because of it's ubiquity in the platforms where it's available. If Apple ever bought Netflix, I doubt they'd remove it from other platforms.

lowtolerance 10y ago
Apple Music is available on Android and Windows. It would make absolutely no sense for them to buy Netflix only to cut out the vast majority of Netflix users by making it only available on Apple's own platforms.

mundoayala 10y ago

Although it's not the greatest example. When Apple bought Beats and rebranded to Apple Music they still publish to Android via Google Play Store.. so they've shown cross-platform support?

cat199 10y ago

Netflix imho nowadays is trying to be the HBO of cord-cutters - In the primarily mail-dvd days, they were like the awesome video store that has everything; netflix online only has a (admittedly large) handful of titles, with ever more emphasis on the ever increasing quantity of self-produced titles... While I was once very pro-netflix as a consumer, imagning one day that I'd be able to watch anything at all ever produced with a low subscription - I'm more ambivalent now imagining the future when the dvd rentals (and associated vast library) are dropped entirely and never digitized..

1123581321 10y ago
Physical DVD rentals don't require the expensive licensing deals with individual publishers that digital rental and streaming do. Netflix would offer every movie available in DVD if allowed.

heavymark 10y ago

If Apple were to buy Netflix, which I don't think would make any sense from a business perspective. That being said, the only thing that would make even less sense would be for Apple to buy Netflix and then make it no longer available on the web or any device other than Mac. That would make 0 sense. And I'm sure you are aware Apple Music for instance is built and supports both iOS and Android.