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> Now that everyone and their dog appears to be offering their own streaming service, we are right back to the "app store" days of competing on the basis of "to
by d1zzy 7y ago
> Now that everyone and their dog appears to be offering their own streaming service, we are right back to the "app store" days of competing on the basis of "total number of apps". Quantity over quality.
As a not young anymore childless expat adult with an interest in non-popular topics, I don't think that's a bad thing necessarily. While I'm surprised at the really bad quality (production but also just plain lies/propaganda) of some of the Prime content, I am happy that there's at least one streaming service were such content can be found because if that crappy content makes it to Prime it is a lot more likely that the non-popular stuff I really want is also there (at least, as compared to more heavily curated streaming services).
Of course, if your demographics more align with what is "popular" (and there's nothing wrong with that!) that may not matter and the negatives of having less filtering may be more of an issue. I will add that besides the weird/unpopular and low quality content, Prime tends to have a surprisingly good collection of (older) content, from Star Trek series to HBO shows (Sopranos, Tru Blood, Six Feet Under, etc), overall it's a pretty good service for the money and with the included 2 "days" (because lately it's more like 3 although sometimes it's next day) delivery it's unbeatable.