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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by cogman10 on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:13PM (#29786990)
No doubt, Netflix has optimized content delivery better than pretty much anyone. They spend all the right time in all the right places to get media the plays well and looks good on pretty much every device and any bitrate. They are leaders in video codecs and encoding.

Everyone else have been learning, slowly, the lessons Netflix learned years ago.

Is anyone else even doing a program like OpenConnect? https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

That's the sort of stuff that really sets netflix apart from the competition.

All that said, IMO, the average consumer doesn't really care about technical quality of the content, they care about the catalog.

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by fhd2 on Monday January 03, 2022 @07:30PM (#29789215)
Pretty subjective, but I find Disney+ quite superior to Netflix in both quality of the streaming and UX - two areas I'm surprised a "non-tech company" can win in. Seems to me like the tech part (anything but the content, really) is actually a commodity already.
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