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Perhaps long term, that would be an issue. But short term and even medium term, I don't see Netflix, Prime Video and YouTube Red as competition. Their real comp
by curun1r 9y ago
Perhaps long term, that would be an issue. But short term and even medium term, I don't see Netflix, Prime Video and YouTube Red as competition. Their real competition is cable/satellite and as long as Netflix helps round out a cord-cutting bundle that convinces people to ditch cable, it's a net benefit to Google/Amazon. And as cable dies, especially given the recent FCC direction, you can expect them to start to play more games with the internet connections they also provide to customers. I think Google and Amazon realize that Netflix will be much more sympathetic in that fight than either of them will be. So it makes sense for Amazon/Google to support Netflix as much as possible so they can use them as a proxy in the upcoming fight against the cable companies.