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> People will not use a browser that does not support Netflix. It's a simple as that. Netflix ended 2013 with 44 million subscribers, by their own numbers [1],
by dingaling 13y ago
> People will not use a browser that does not support Netflix. It's a simple as that.
Netflix ended 2013 with 44 million subscribers, by their own numbers [1], with a target of reaching and stablilising at 90 million.
That's it: 90 million out of an online population of around 2.5 billion, or around 4%.
Do you make business decisions on the basis of 4% of your potential ( non-paying ) audience?
1: http://business.time.com/2014/01/22/netflix-number-of-subscribers-grows-greatly-in-q4/ http://business.time.com/2014/01/22/netflix-number-of-subscr...
- azakai 13y ago1. This isn't a Netflix module. It's for anyone who views DRM'd video content. 2. This is a growing area - we don't need to care just about current numbers but the trend. The trend is clear: Hollywood wants EME DRM on all content. 3. 44 million out of 2.5 billion sounds like a little, but is not the best way to calculate things. Netflix doesn't even sell a service in most of the countries those 2.5 billion are in. In countries like the US, Netflix is large and growing, and especially heavily represented among younger internet-savvy people (who are the heaviest browser users). So your calculation is very much an underestimate.
- greatbigtable 13y agoWho gives a crap what Hollywood wants. Bending to Hollywood's will has brought us our current endless copyright renewal and the Digital Millennium copyright Act. How have those worked out for us? Not to well... Mozilla should do some A/B testing; release a browser with the module and without. See which gets the most traction.