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>Now we're going to have to pay more AND switch between nine different apps with broken UIs. Roku, Fire, Apple all make it easy to search and browse for a show
by basch 7y ago
>Now we're going to have to pay more AND switch between nine different apps with broken UIs.
Roku, Fire, Apple all make it easy to search and browse for a show and then deep link into the correct app. It's not perfect, and I hope it will get better, but you are not currently forced to open the apps. Fire goes a step further and lets you play videos you are licensed to right out of the fire interface, without the app firing up. It's easy to subscribe to hbo, cbs ets and have the content you are licensed to see show up right with your other stuff. (The Fire interface being not so pleasant to use is another story entirely.)
>Disney needs to be broken up. They own 90% of American pop culture.
Has a company ever been broken up for its library of content?
>build services like Spotify that have everything and merely pay the rights holders.
These platforms above are the single aggregator you are looking for. Comcast and DirecTV were these, but without the option for a la cart.
>pay way less than cable.
You have the option to make it cheaper if you want to rotate your subscriptions and not hold them all at the same time. I see that as a net gain vs the previous status quo of the TV Provider bundle era.
- anoncake 7y ago> Has a company ever been broken up for its library of content? There's a first time for everything.