It's not often that I see two of my regularly-read bloggers agree so completely about something non-political. First, Dale at Faith in Honest Doubt.
So, to summarize: Netflix is joining the poor quality of its video streaming offerings to a less useful web site experience and more complex billing.
Now, James Lileks.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cool, nifty, successful company screw the pooch with such vigor before.
Here I must confess to missing out on yet another hot idea: I have never used Netflix, so I can't offer any firsthand commentary on this. But typically in the business world such an action is a prelude to selling/killing/filing bankruptcy proceedings for one of the entities. The fact that the DVD part is getting the new name would seem to indicate they are anticipating the streaming business taking off while the DVD business wanes, so they want to be in position to ditch the DVD part quietly and efficiently.
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