But according to Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos, the service ultimately is a complement to cable, not a killer: “Our product is like a motorcycle. Cable TV is like a car. If you price one cheap enough you can have both.”
Monday, August 23, 2010
Netflix Complementary to Cable?
As cable has lost video subscribers, Netflix has been racking them up: It had 15 million subscribers at the end of June, up 42 percent from a year earlier.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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