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Old 30-12-2019, 19:09   #7096
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Re: Netflix/Streaming Services
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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Indeed. And if we look at media ownership 20 years ago compared to today, it’s massively different. AOL for instance once valued at $222bn ended up purchased by Verizon in 2015 for a mere $4.4bn. If you can’t continue to offer a cutting edge going forward it’s your business model under the gun. Not the “vision” you had fifteen years earlier.

If you want some more fun, albeit in a different sector, BlackBerry Ltd (formerly Research in Motion) are worth a look at their demise from a once mighty position in the market.

It is therefore with some irony that Old Boy accuses me of being the one lacking vision and assuming nothing will change.

The question for Netflix will be what does it offer that everyone else doesn’t?
Of course things change, and successful companies adapt, just as Netflix adapted from its DVD rental beginnings.

The problem I see with your arguments is you only ever see things going one way - down the proverbial shute. You appear to have little regard to the power of innovation to meet what you deduce are immovable obstacles to progress.

It is fair enough to point to the huge debt that Netflix has, and continues to accrue. But to be so cock sure that they will never come out of the other side shows a lack of flexibility of thought on your part.

Whilst I cannot rule out that Netflix could fail in the end, nor can you rule out that they may well succeed.
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