Re:Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To ...
by vanderZwan on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:41AM
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> Though unrealistic, all things considered, there needs to be a single site for everything (akin to pirated tv/film sites, incidentally).
I'm from the Netherlands. I live in Sweden. In both countries the banks have been able to set up a shared service to make digital payments easy for consumers, despite them being competitors[0][1]. In the Netherlands we also have one national transport chip-card used by all public transport providers[2].
Based on that I would say that what this may need is just the right amount of (and type of) government regulation to force the different competitors to play nice enough to create a better end-product for consumers and to compete healthily with each other. I won't pretend to know what that regulation would look like though.
I'm from the Netherlands. I live in Sweden. In both countries the banks have been able to set up a shared service to make digital payments easy for consumers, despite them being competitors[0][1]. In the Netherlands we also have one national transport chip-card used by all public transport providers[2].
Based on that I would say that what this may need is just the right amount of (and type of) government regulation to force the different competitors to play nice enough to create a better end-product for consumers and to compete healthily with each other. I won't pretend to know what that regulation would look like though.
[0] https://www.tikkie.me/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish_(payment)
[2] https://www.ov-chipkaart.nl/home-1.htm