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It involves the Major League Baseball! Disney+ was created with the technology that was used to stream MLB games.

Disney acquired 75% of BAMTech Media for $2 billion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Streaming

I think HBO has shown us that you don't need a streaming app as good as netflix, people just need to be able to watch your content. If you have the content people will pay to stream it.

The quality of the streaming app just has to pass a relatively low bar. It just needs to work tbh. The content is king.

It could be they just hired extremely competent people to build it, outsourced?