With cloud computing (Fastly, AWS etc.) now anyone can build their Netflix be it boomer companies like Disney and HBO If these companies had to build their own CDNs and infra they would never be able to compete with Netflix
If you think Netflix is a video streaming platform I think you miss the differentiator. Netflix is really a recommendation engine. Their experience to be pushed content is miles better than the other platforms. Amazon Prime in comparison is a dogshit experience & Disney plus tends to have buffering issues
So good at recommending, but only have garbage to choose from...
Agreed. Netflix's player and overall interface is far superior to Disney+ or Prime or HBO Max. However, all those have much better content than Netflix so they probably don't have to bother creating much better UX anyway
Why? HBO and Disney have the money and the content. They could've always overpaid engineers. People would've chased the money and created services for these companies. Otherwise, someone besides AWS could've provided these services to those companies. The only way Disney and HBO would've lost is if they'd refused to embrace technology until it was too late. Both those companies started from a much better position. Netflix was always fighting a difficult fight. Their own greediness didn't help either
Netflix was build on aws from day 1 I believe. So how can you say aws killed ?
We began migrating from our own data center to AWS around 2012 and took a couple years to complete the transition.
I’m not sure how you guys think HBO and Disney have better content than Netflix. HBO has 3 or 4 mega hits per year but nothing with high rewatch value, Disney is hot garbage if you dislike their IP and are older than 15. Netflix has been pushing 1 or 2 megahits per year and has a few rewatchable things, and mounds of doodoo. I think Netflix’s content issue has more to do with having so much garbage that it makes it hard to find the good content. Recommendations are NOT great if my perception of their content library is that it’s low quality. Even if there are 990 crap quality content and 10 good quality content, the recommendation engine should only show me what I find good and therefore skew my perspective. Content issues aside, Netflix is also very expensive now as we’ve raised prices multiple times in 12 months. Expensive is fine IF the customer feels like they’re getting value for the incremental cost. Right now they don’t feel that way. We gotta do more than up the image quality.
You reply don’t the the Wire, Sopranos, Silicon Valley, Oz, Westworld, Boardwalk Empire, True Detective, Curb, Deadwood, Veep, Mare of Easttown, Succession, GoT(S1-6), Chernobyl, Barry and Band of Brothers represents a good and rewatchable content library?
In my opinion? Not really. I’d say maybe Sopranos? The rest of them are hard passes for me.
AWS also killed people internally.
Amazon prime has the shittiest of everything, not sure who build it given they had everything in their favor from day 1 and also massive money to back any improvement projects Not to mention added advantage of prime memberships from retails and still they could not win till today Netflix started off well with better UI and recommendation but have not seen any improvements in last couple of years
The TPMs of Amazon killed it
If my aunt had balls, she’d be my uncle
Same
Aws is always killing something ... killing its own employee via pip, etc etc
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