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They’ve been pushing the same product since inception; they could do nothing except maintain current tech and catalogue, which is what they’ve more or less been
by ashelmire 8y ago
They’ve been pushing the same product since inception; they could do nothing except maintain current tech and catalogue, which is what they’ve more or less been doing. So it’s in spite of. They could have any culture, hire a herd of thousands of cats and pay them half a million each, and they wouldn’t lose much.
The only thing they need to do to survive is maintain rights to enough shows people are willing to pay for.
- icebraining 8y agoThey’ve been pushing the same product since inception I don't see how that's true at all. They were originally an American DVD mail order service that rented other people's movies. They're now a global streaming service with a strong content production division. They've change both the product, the business model, the customer base and the tech.
- falcolas 8y agoThey made that pivot a decade ago now. The current work for most of the tech employees is likely exactly maintenance. They could be looking at another pivot, but that's yet to be seen.
- icebraining 8y agoI wasn't speaking only regarding tech, since the previous poster talked about the catalogue, which has definitively changed with the Originals (the first is just five years old). But even regarding tech, they've been making new things; for example, they moved from physical data centers to their OpenConnect appliances.
- r00fus 8y agoYou seem to think that maintaining the current site takes no effort. I bet you think iPhones make themselves or that Google search barely requires maintenance? It's not like they've not added countries, content and features since inception.