Some will scream in horror but I wanted Netflix to be a monopoly. A single place and app and account with all the content I need.
"competition" in streaming space has been nothing but disastrous for me as a consumer. It led to greedy heterogeneous islands of content, with proliferation of crappy apps and pointless restrictions and return to cable package mentality.
Again, Possibly irrationally and ignorantly, my fear is that 5 years from now I'll need a dozen subscriptions to less good services which will hoard their source data and models and be specialized based on which content they got licenses to. I. E. There'll be ai1 with new York times and Wikipedia, and ai2 with Washington post and encyclopedia Britannica, and ai3 with I don't know fox news and RT, and ai4 with mit and Harvard business libraries, and ai5 focused on math with extra subscription to wolfram, and ai6 with rights to stack overflow and JavaScript and so on.
There are many scenarios various writers have posited where we are actually in local maxima lf ll, with data being increasingly closed and or poisoned, and possibly segregated in the near future. :-/