BLO716

Spot on, my boy. A lot of folks see this as a consumable like music and should be a free commodity. I akin this to free music for download and the death of an industry. A NEW industry popped up and gave us streaming music and there was no longer a need to OWN music. Artists were also given tools to expand their music on every platform w/ very little investment.

The shared resource thing, is just Netflix turning a blind eye, because their business model worked for a time and allowed this to happen. Now that DVDs are all but dead, this was the next logical business revenue model that needed a revamp.

How can anyone blame Netflix for FIXING a loss leader in their business line(s)? We all run and work for start-ups .. its the natural progression of finances at scale.

Well, the Netflix content is not going to get any less palatable because their business model works.

Some folks run businesses that succeed, other ran (past tense) start-ups that failed.

Unfortunately, the lasting affect will be a net positive, because sometimes you have to just be the adult and say loosing money isn't an option. I would like to call this shedding the college weight, and firing 80% of the work force, because the business will die otherwise in the case of Twitter.

Would you rather run a business with much higher ROI with a small user base and run a lean business, or a fat business with super scale data but bleeding out money? I'm not sure I get the argument against this.

So basically they saved money on streaming bills, reduced "ghost" numbers from the bottom line, and maintained probably about the same level of equity.

What's the problem here?

After replacing the head unit in my Tacoma, I couldn't live my life w/o the modern amenities with Apple CarPlay, TBH. I drive my wife's Nissan and just so let down on the interface of early Rogues .. but at least the entire setup now comes up in a 2020 we drive. Anyway ... GM is shooting themselves in the foot on this one.

I think GM (and most car manufacturers) miss out on the partnerships with such players like Apple and Google entirely to extend their OS reach and ubiquity. The SYNERGY could be a billion dollar package add-on. What also puzzles me was why Tesla never bought Apple or vis versa. The UI/UX fast-track in such an endeavor would be mind boggling.

Way to cast aside the population most likely to buy your EV. I guess they aren't looking at their data.

Sounds like someone had some money in FTX! After seeing all the social media influencers pushing the product and services, absolutely love this list.

The cooperative group think can be ... absolutely terrible, and having someone who is delivery to this level of scrutiny in a check-list style is probably the best I've seen in a long time.

philosophy -> math -> computer science -> engineering.

That's the traditional hierarchy from an educational perspective on one end to the other, as far as I visualize it.

Everything has to start in the brain and be cognitively teased out to become the [math] part. The traditional scientific method then realizes it within the scope of the math foundation, that then in my world gets manifested into a software realization that can do mechanical things, and then it drives the physics and rubber-meets-road physical texture of it all. The realization of science always starts with a cognitive idea and general philosophy of one's ability.

As Sheldon would say, "I have a general working knowledge of everything in the Universe."

I don't think they intentionally tried to kill the industry, as it was foreign production didn't have this problem of unions. Also the Japanese during the 70s had a lean six sigma type thing going on.

Little more complicated than Unions I think, that lead to the point we were at.

Ya, that keystroke monitoring software that the young lady talked about was rather cringe.

I'm still trying to find a reliable boots-on-ground in people's face news journalism. Anyone have boots on group stuff?

What you do with the results is a legal argument after the fact. It's like saying we give you food, but you can't store the poop. Honestly - there is a house of cards just waiting to be challenged. Then again .. this is Google ($$$)