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I'm not sure why you're surprised that Apple can't beat Netflix pricing on Netflix's own content... But yeah, a-la-carte is always more expensive than bundles.

by Touche 9y ago

I'm not sure why you're surprised that Apple can't beat Netflix pricing on Netflix's own content... But yeah, a-la-carte is always more expensive than bundles. That's true of episodes, or channels, or whatever else.

munk-a 9y ago
Well yea, if, for instance, it cost $6 or so to get the season through itunes then that would be clearly higher but not yet stupid... we're not talking about the price scaling for buying things in bulk, itunes it just asking you to burn money for no reason... It is cheaper to get all of netflix for a month than three episodes of a show on netflix. That price step moves us beyond "more expensive" into crazy land.
- Touche 9y ago
  It's hard to say without knowing the terms of the agreement between Netflix and Apple. If I were Netflix I wouldn't allow them to sell it for cheaper than me.
  - munk-a 9y ago
    That's fair, and there's nothing compelling you (if you were Netflix) to even make them available to Apple to sell. There can absolutely be market reasons to do this, but if you were a farmer with a farm stand next to a grocery store who sold corn for $3 and allowed the grocery store to sell "Corn grown by Touche, also for sale out the door and around the corner for $3" at a price of $200... there isn't anything illegal there, but it's stupid. You might do this because you get the occasional sale through the grocery market (convenience) and the grocery market would probably be happy to participate if it only had to settle up when an actual sale occurred... but I think reasonable people looking at this situation could all agree that it's stupid.
    - Touche 9y ago
      I don't know how you could be so certain of what the price of a single episode should be. There's so many factors outside of what Apple chooses to price them at. It might even be possible that Apple has no say in how it prices episodes. That is the case (or used to be the case, at least) in the book industry. Are individual episode prices high or are bundle prices low? Remember that Netflix can sell Jessica Jones Season 1 for so cheap because people who don't care about and will never watch it are paying for it.
      - Woberto 9y ago
        I was under the impression that Apple's price would depend on their agreement with Netflix, and would reflect some amount Netflix thought was reasonable. If this were the case, maybe Netflix is trying to drive users towards them? Why would Apple agree though? Because they could possibly profit highly?
josefresco 9y ago
"a-la-carte is always more expensive than bundles" And yet, people bitch about the price of bundles.

by Touche 9y ago

munk-a 9y ago

Well yea, if, for instance, it cost $6 or so to get the season through itunes then that would be clearly higher but not yet stupid... we're not talking about the price scaling for buying things in bulk, itunes it just asking you to burn money for no reason... It is cheaper to get all of netflix for a month than three episodes of a show on netflix. That price step moves us beyond "more expensive" into crazy land.

Touche 9y ago
It's hard to say without knowing the terms of the agreement between Netflix and Apple. If I were Netflix I wouldn't allow them to sell it for cheaper than me.
- munk-a 9y ago
  That's fair, and there's nothing compelling you (if you were Netflix) to even make them available to Apple to sell. There can absolutely be market reasons to do this, but if you were a farmer with a farm stand next to a grocery store who sold corn for $3 and allowed the grocery store to sell "Corn grown by Touche, also for sale out the door and around the corner for $3" at a price of $200... there isn't anything illegal there, but it's stupid. You might do this because you get the occasional sale through the grocery market (convenience) and the grocery market would probably be happy to participate if it only had to settle up when an actual sale occurred... but I think reasonable people looking at this situation could all agree that it's stupid.
  - Touche 9y ago
    I don't know how you could be so certain of what the price of a single episode should be. There's so many factors outside of what Apple chooses to price them at. It might even be possible that Apple has no say in how it prices episodes. That is the case (or used to be the case, at least) in the book industry. Are individual episode prices high or are bundle prices low? Remember that Netflix can sell Jessica Jones Season 1 for so cheap because people who don't care about and will never watch it are paying for it.
    - Woberto 9y ago
      I was under the impression that Apple's price would depend on their agreement with Netflix, and would reflect some amount Netflix thought was reasonable. If this were the case, maybe Netflix is trying to drive users towards them? Why would Apple agree though? Because they could possibly profit highly?

josefresco 9y ago

"a-la-carte is always more expensive than bundles" And yet, people bitch about the price of bundles.