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freehe
4/26/2016 8:34:16 PM
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Patience
If you work hard and are persistence you can get to the top. Kudos to Netflix. Customers want options and HBO is losing customers by continuing to use the same model it has for years. They will lose all their customers if they don't become customer centric and innovate. Change is good.
dlr5288
4/26/2016 6:44:20 PM
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Re: Overstatisticianization
Yes I agree!
If you're only interested in one show, then why buy the whole package? It would be must easier and cheaper to just buy that particular show rather than the whole HBO package it offers. Seems too expensive if you're only interested in watching one show.
dlr5288
4/25/2016 7:50:14 PM
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How far
It's crazy to me how far Netflix has come! I remember when someone introduced it to me years ao and I had no clue what it was. Now it seems like everyone has a Netflix account. It's inspiring to see something like that grow into something so huge. It's not surprising to me that Netflix topped the list!
DHagar
4/25/2016 12:57:09 PM
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Re: Overstatisticianization
@Joe, Whoa!! What a deal!
Sounds like they have lost touch with reality then - that's what happens when they begin thinking they know what's best for the company.
Or - they think they can coast and do "all of the above". If they are going to be a "content" company, then they need to focus on that and not try to coax the consumer into mediocre services.
I would cancel my subscription as well. Note: Maybe that is why Amazon is making inroads into the subscription services.
Ariella
4/24/2016 9:27:33 PM
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Re: Overstatisticianization
<at the same time you are forced to buy things you don't want to get the things you do. >
@JohnBarnes Exactly, that's the way many of the bundles work. In fact, I find that for some of the internet service packages, they also bundle what I don't want. I'm only interested in internet and phone service, not the TV bundle as well, But I have only a choice of two in my neighborhood and neither is offering a bundle that makes sense for the two. So now I pay for internet alone and take another service for VOIP.
JohnBarnes
4/24/2016 1:49:49 PM
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Re: Overstatisticianization
@Joe, same principle, though. Unless and until the economy is able to become so niche-ified and unique that on every transaction, every person is able to buy exactly what they want in exactly the quantity they want exactly where and when they need it, there will always be some slippage off the mark of quantity/quality/price/timing, and despite all the ways we devise to minimize or recapture that slippage, some of it will remain. A bit like entropy, friction, or copying error, actually; despite our best efforts, some of our expenditures will be useless to us. The form the uselessness takes can be moved around and the amount can often be reduced, but overall we're stuck with at least some of it.
Re: Overstatisticianization
@John: Fascinating. I used to date someone with an economics degree. She would explain these concepts to me whenever I questioned them.
But I have to wonder about the demand for both tour of the solar system coverage (unless by "tour" you mean some form of interplanetary space golf (IPGA = Interplanetary Golf Association?)) and direct brainfeed for someone listening to a composer's work (and Mahler of all people!). I suspect it will be more along the lines of having to get one of those when all they really want is the direct brainfeed from someone playing Super Mario Bros. 1 Million.
JohnBarnes
4/23/2016 1:09:47 PM
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Re: Overstatisticianization
Joe, both can very easily be true, and at the same time: you can find you have to buy more just to get what you want at the same time you are forced to buy things you don't want to get the things you do. This can even happen in a theoretical economy with just one consumer good; in fact for nearly all observers, that's nearly always the case (see "consumer surplus" and "producer surplus" in any microeconomics textbook).
Many things can and will change from classical markets as more information becomes cheaper, but I suspect that one will be with us always, and that our great-grandchildren will complain about having to get the Tour of the Solar System live coverage direct brainfeed in order to receive the direct brainfeed from a brilliant musicologist listening to Mahler (or vice versa).
Re: Overstatisticianization
@Ariella: Indeed, whereas some moan about how cable "forces" you to buy too many channels, I feel like you have to subscribe to multiple providers to get *all* of the content you want.
Re: Overstatisticianization
@DHagar: But, oooooohhh, Netflix has an updated UI now that makes some of the icons bigger and closer and more obnoxious and even more confusing than the last UI change! Oh, boy!
*Cancel my account*
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