Comments on: Chasing Netflix, Intel, AT&T, Verizon & others lose their collective mind

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:28:05 +0000

As I worked for a technology offering service company it is so easy to explain why companies they to get in to the foreign field and try offering services that does not benefit the company nor consumers. These things gets decided in board rooms with barely and research and support in order to rescue the company and gets its name heard. But also its very important to undeestand new development and service will make the company look good on paper as it expanding. Most ofbthe time top VP s will get huge bonuses as the expense of companies failed and damaged reputation. After spending alot of money and resources on these alien tereitories normally they go back to what they know and start collecting the pieces

By: Chris Babbitt

Chris Babbitt — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:23:23 +0000

A fantastic and well written article, Om. I greatly enjoyed it, thanks!

Chris

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 03:26:37 +0000

I can only see someone with content to offer that the others don’t having the slightest chance. Try to get to the technology and price point that Netflix and Amazon are at will take and effort (check out Neflix’s techblog – i.e. something posted on gigaom today)

By: Jerome

Jerome — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:31:42 +0000

Not sure what was stupid about the article. It’s simply pointing out that companies should play to their strengths first or fix what’s broken before they go off on an adventure that is so fraught with failure, they will just be wasting money. Netflix specializes in one product – streaming. I don’t see the company getting into Online Shopping just because Amazon needs competition nor go into hardware production because Samsung is kicking people’s butts on the TV side. Why do you think a technical background is needed to explain a simple concept?

By: Jerome

Jerome — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:26:44 +0000

It’s amazing that some companies think that Netflix was built in a day. With 30+ Million Subscribers, there must be something compelling besides the price point that drives people to fork over $8.00 month after month. Everyone and their moms want to go into streaming business and yet they have been coming up short everytime. Netflix does not sit on their butts waiting for the competition. They forge forward and disrupt the media while other companie are still trying to figure out how to get subscribers to make sense of their offerings.

By: Mr. Paul

Mr. Paul — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:44:45 +0000

“torrent of announcements”, really? Lol

By: D Lawrence

D Lawrence — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:05:45 +0000

I get diversifying your business, Verizon and AT&T both did it successfully with their U-Verse and Fios products. It helped their terrestrial services survive as the home phone model has shriveled up with the price points that mobile service now offers. The venture into a streaming service given their deals with companies such as Microsoft for distribution of content is not completely nuts if only they had chosen to do it correctly! I personally enjoy Netflix for its children’s content and its abundance of documentaries. Redbox/VZ venture has decided that was not their focus and as such unless they are getting new titles much earlier than Netflix I don’t see how they will have the ability to compete given netflix’s comparative libraries, and this is a chosen self blow per statements made from Verizon. That is the single biggest mistake and hindrance I can see…. if your going to do it. do it right.

By: john woods

john woods — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:45:38 +0000

Do you have a technical background?

Sorry I am not going to educate you why Intel wants to enter the business. Intel may fail in this attempt, due to execution, not the idea itself.

Do your research first before you publish something stupid.

By: Jaspreet

Jaspreet — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:52:02 +0000

Om – I totally agree with you. The two key factors for the streaming business is an ecosystem and the content and Netflix have both of them. I dont think others will catchup in this race. The content deals are expensive and if you dont have good content then you will not get subscriptions. This will be going to happen soon with Redbox, they have EPIC content which Netflix and Amazon already have, so what’s the value add? In next 6 months when Netflix have all there original series out, then I would like to revisit the status on other streaming players.
Sony common work on your SmartTVs they suck compair to Samsung’s etc. Intel should compete with Qualcomm, they will soon takeover them in mobile chips.

By: ricdesan

ricdesan — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:01:24 +0000

The content delivery industry is a lot like blogging, very few make money on it and everyone HAS to do it for the love.

Netflixjust happened to be the first and contrary to what the press would have you believe, it enjoys a loyal following. For sure with me! So can you imagine what the ramp up is to enter the market for ANYONE, let alone large corps.