Why Netflix pay double of competitors? 270
Everyday I go on the other streaming apps and ask myself why canât they all be like Netflix⊠everyone else has such a shitty UX
Compared to YouTube premium Netflix sucks balls
All streaming platforms have terrible search...just universal search by keyword, and "smart" match on movie title or actor. There should be faceted search by genre (action, drama), scene (car chase, fight), setting (space, western), studio (Paramount, Pixar), original distribution type (theatrical, streaming), length, rating
People use remote as the input device. It has to be simple than that. Netflix does do some of these though
On Netflix I can pick a genre, but I can't search within that genre. That would be a huge improvement. Pick action movies, then search for an actor but only within action movies. Then just checkboxes for popular facets within the genre (car chases, explosions for action, dance number or wedding for drama, etc). That should be simple enough for a remote interface. Netflix is better than Disney+ where the categories are Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and Other lol
It's probably slightly better because they co locate some titles directly at isps. But for the most part it really isn't. Mpeg-dash / hls are really stable standards now that everyone uses and making a grid of stuff to watch and putting it in an app isn't exactly mind blowing tech
Try making it work well on like 100+ device platforms around the world though. People who have only ever written apps for iOS and Android have no idea what a pain in the ass it is to write apps for 10 year old set top boxes that have 512MB of RAM, no API documentation and all the CPU power of a small hamster. đ±
Netflix recommendation algorithm is supposed to be better. But in reality looking at IMDB scores will give you a better answer if you will like a movie or not.
Not really. On IMDB, every title has ratings of 1 and 10, how do you know which cohort you are in?
The answer is to start acquiring a good taste and watch only masterpiece movies.
As somebody with shit WiFi, yes Netflix streaming is way more efficient than anything else I easily can do 1080p on Netflix streams, 720p on Youtube videos, and 480p for everything else I've ever used
https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/ Netflix streams directly from your ISP down the street. YouTube has comparable infrastructure but a much larger amount of content. Everyone else is streaming from Virginia
Uif, that's not exactly true. Yes, Netflix built their own CDN but Netflix didn't invent CDNs. Everyone else is using Akamai, Cloudfront, Fastly, etc. Their edge servers are likely located right alongside Netflix's in your ISP's data center.
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they pay 500k cash for top tier talent, but theyâll fire you fast if you donât perform. thatâs just their work culture