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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by andrepd on Sunday January 20, 2019 @05:45AM (#18952392)
>people are going to watch TV no matter what

Well, not really. Obviously people already watch TV, but netflix is much more addictive, by design, and that's not a good thing.

People are going to gamble no matter what, yet modern slots are many times more addictive, else the companies wouldn't research and develop them.

>Better Netflix than competitors, no?

Why?

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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by Mikeb85 on Sunday January 20, 2019 @09:21AM (#18953145)
> Why?

Because the parent had worked for Netflix.

> netflix is much more addictive, by design

Is it? I remember people being glued to TVs for ungodly amounts of time before Netflix.

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Re:Netflix claims Fortnite is now a bigger competitor than HBO by ghaff on Sunday January 20, 2019 @11:44AM (#18953887)
I’d argue that, for at least some people, streaming/TiVo/etc. can lead to more deliberate TV watching rather than plopping yourself down and begging out. I guess the counterpoint is there’s all this TV just sitting there for the watching but I’m honestly not sure which predominates. Many People historically watched a lot of TV, of whatever type happened to be on.
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