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I'm going to go against the popular narrative and say that the current fragmentation of streaming services is a net positive. The problem is that hard-core use
by iteratethis 3y ago
I'm going to go against the popular narrative and say that the current fragmentation of streaming services is a net positive.
The problem is that hard-core users are very vocal and dominate the conversation.
My normie take is that most households will do just fine by having max 2 stream services, which they can regularly switch up. Many may have additional ones via account sharing. That should give you plenty of high quality stuff to watch, "high quality" meaning better than TV.
Multiple streaming services fighting for your eye balls and them not being guaranteed of your business is a good thing. It's how a market is supposed to work. Competition. It's frightening how easily consumers would want to give that up for slightly more convenience of having everything under one roof.
Everything under one roof would mean total price control on the supply side, even more flat repetitive content, the providers having total leverage over producers, etc.
Our behavior enables monopolists. Stop doing that.