God, I fucking hate apps.
Apps are what you get when there are too many dumb people. Apps are dumb people paradise.
Too stupid to use a computer?
There’s an app for that!
Also, Netflix is now useless as they once had everything I could want to watch. Now they have almost nothing.
So it’s a pirate’s life for me.
I think high profit-margin would be a better description for Starbuck’s success rather than “Passion brand”. Fine, so Netflix wants to run the same game, but they previously were doing a great job competing against the general interest offerings because they had the catalog bredth to attract the actually passionate customers. I’m not sure what they do better than RedBox at this point.
Observations in no order.
–Apps don’t make sense outside of a smartphone environment.
–I’ve never discovered anything through Netflix that I wouldn’t have other ways of watching. I have discovered shows and artists through file sharing services.
–What sort of things has Netflix dropped that you would have to pirate in order to see?
–They keep talking about “linear tv”. I wonder if that means that every actor who stars in Viagra/Cialis commercials will get their own show because only very old people now watch shows “linearly” and will want to see themselves.
–My father loves his DVR, but unfortunately is hard of hearing and I think gets super distracted when he’s not doing anything else. “What?” “What just happened?””Rewind and explain it to me again.” I picture a series of shows that are just constantly rewinding gifs and vines of Viagra/Cialis commercial actors advancing plots.
It’s been several years since I’ve looked at Netflix’s catalog, but it’s only gotten smaller and more restricted since then. Not entirely their fault; content companies have been trying to bilk them for years, and they now couldn’t afford the fees they’d be charge to have everything.
Netflix just isn’t for me, anymore, as it’s an HBO when I want something that has everything. I don’t want to subscribe and won’t subscribe to 5-10 different DRM-infested services to watch what I want to watch.
Pirating is easier, more convenient, you get what you want in a way that you can use it anywhere, at any time, and it’s almost always available. I’d pay up to $80 a month if Netflix or similar offered the same, but it’ll never happen.
The inability to watch what I want across whatever devices I want is a serious shortcoming.
I was thinking of things such as obscure Canadian shows and Japanese cartoons, both of which I’ve never found on Netflix (which sticks to very obvious and well known titles). Their Hindi movie catalog is sparse. I’d never subscribe to HBO as it’s a huge additional cost on top of cable. Some releases are DRM limited so you can’t even get them legally if you wanted to. I don’t know about more convenient, but if I’m paying for any streaming, any kind of buffering or poor picture quality or blips in sound is unacceptable. Otherwise, it’s just like Napster dialup ish.
Yeah, there are some Australian shows I want to watch. Easy to find at “special” sites, impossible to find on streaming services, anywhere.