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I have a hard time believing that there are many people in this world who can afford to spend $3,500 on an Apple Vision Pro, care to have a Netflix account, and

I have a hard time believing that there are many people in this world who can afford to spend $3,500 on an Apple Vision Pro, care to have a Netflix account, and don't already have one. Certainly not enough to be able to reasonably expect to generate positive ROI on the price of developing and maintaining an app for it.

KittenInABox 3y ago
I am willing to buy someone who can afford a 3.5k apple vision pro re-subscribing after letting their netflix subscription lapse if it means watching Stranger Things in like IMAX quality or something
- PaulHoule 3y ago
  … both Meta and Apple are pushing pano and half pano videos which can be the next best thing to being there. It would be a big investment for Netflix to add a new content type like that. I recently got into the habit of sitting in the front row at college basketball games so I was really excited to try the court side pano video from NBA games on Xtadium which unfortunately doesn’t quite work on 20 Mbps DSL.
nozzlegear 3y ago
I'm outside the Venn Diagram overlap on this one, but I preordered an AVP and do not have an active Netflix account. I subscribe to watch Stranger Things whenever there's a new season and then unsub until the next one. But I just don't watch a lot of tv or movies in general, so Netflix is right on not pursuing me.
- bunderbunder 3y ago
  That's another great point, though. Early adopters are a fickle market, precisely because they're early adopters - being more wont to try new things also means more wont to move on if something more interesting comes along. That's a great tradeoff when you're first trying to build a market for a new innovation. But I doubt Netflix even particularly wants that kind of customer anymore - at least not enough to actively chase after them. They want stable, reliable ARR, and for an incumbent like them that means slower-moving consumers who will subscribe and then just keep their subscription and watch whatever happens to be on Netflix simply because it's on Netflix and they already have Netflix and inertia.

KittenInABox 3y ago

I am willing to buy someone who can afford a 3.5k apple vision pro re-subscribing after letting their netflix subscription lapse if it means watching Stranger Things in like IMAX quality or something

PaulHoule 3y ago
… both Meta and Apple are pushing pano and half pano videos which can be the next best thing to being there. It would be a big investment for Netflix to add a new content type like that. I recently got into the habit of sitting in the front row at college basketball games so I was really excited to try the court side pano video from NBA games on Xtadium which unfortunately doesn’t quite work on 20 Mbps DSL.

nozzlegear 3y ago

I'm outside the Venn Diagram overlap on this one, but I preordered an AVP and do not have an active Netflix account. I subscribe to watch Stranger Things whenever there's a new season and then unsub until the next one. But I just don't watch a lot of tv or movies in general, so Netflix is right on not pursuing me.

bunderbunder 3y ago
That's another great point, though. Early adopters are a fickle market, precisely because they're early adopters - being more wont to try new things also means more wont to move on if something more interesting comes along. That's a great tradeoff when you're first trying to build a market for a new innovation. But I doubt Netflix even particularly wants that kind of customer anymore - at least not enough to actively chase after them. They want stable, reliable ARR, and for an incumbent like them that means slower-moving consumers who will subscribe and then just keep their subscription and watch whatever happens to be on Netflix simply because it's on Netflix and they already have Netflix and inertia.