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Why precisely does Netflix need to "evolve"? I like Netflix just fine as it is, thank you very much. The totality of current online businesses are using "someon
by Bud 13y ago
Why precisely does Netflix need to "evolve"? I like Netflix just fine as it is, thank you very much. The totality of current online businesses are using "someone else's pipes", so framing that as a criticism strikes me as distinctly hollow.
- gtirloni 13y agoI would say it needs to "adapt" to harsher market conditions created by these mergers, net neutrality gone, etc.
- rayiner 13y agoOnline businesses by and large use other people's pipes and that inherently makes them all vulnerable. Its like apps on iOS. Apple will always capture most of the value created by the ecosystem as a while, because they control the platform. App developers have little leverage. Its not profitable to be a sharecropper, but that's what online businesses largely are. Regulating and commoditizing the communications infrastructure into "dumb pipes" (I.e. net neutrality) is the only around that. Its regulation that picks winners and losers by telling an entire industry that they have to produce a commodity product so that online businesses can be protected from a flaw intrinsic to their business model.