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Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed Floppies?

Posted by Soulskill on from the steve-did-it-in-the-library-with-one-button dept.

cheezitmike writes "While there has been lots of outcry about Netflix separating their DVD service from their streaming service, media expert Eric Garland says they're just doing to the DVD what Apple did to the floppy disk. 'I was reminded of so many precedents: Facebook revamping its user interface, the introduction of the first Blueberry iMac, the one with the conspicuously missing 3.5-inch floppy drive on the front. All of these were moments when there was a paradigm shift that led to an immediate public outcry. People made a lot of noise and had a lot of complaints. People were very upset about these shifts...until they weren't. In the news cycle, the outcry is significant and it is problematic, but it's also important to note how quickly these things are forgotten.'"

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  1. Re:Apple by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Funny
    You don't remember? They went around, door to door, and stole the floppy drive from every macintosh ever created. You had a Mac with a built-in floppy drive? Too bad asshole, now you need to shell out for an external floppy drive.

    Or maybe they introduced a new line of computers without a floppy drive and the comparison doesn't apply.

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  2. Like Vanilla Ice? by geoffrobinson · · Score: 4, Funny

    like Vanilla Ice was able to kill our brain like a poisonous mushroom?

    Can we get any other good examples?

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  3. Re:Apple by Canazza · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everyone knows AOL killed the floppy disk when they gave everyone a CD ROM with the whole Internet on it.

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