Because I am a mean old man, on at least one occasion I have visited the Apple store only to find someone has parked their new car in the parking lot...
How does this make me a mean old man?
When I find that mistake has been made, I run my key down the side of their car before leaving.
I have to admit, I never thought of looking for new tires, but I am not sure I am mean enough to slash someones tires...
Obviously Unlimited does not mean Unlimited. There are many limits.
The most restrictive right now is the throttling.
After that it is the Post Office. (Nextflix could hire people to deliver, just like pizza, in just hours depending on the closest distribution point.)
After that is the number of movies that exist in the world. You obviously can't have all of them.
Why do people consider 45 Unlimited and 15 limited?
If you have a family of 25 people with 10 TVs then 45 might be quite limited. Yet people didn't complain when the Post Office was the limiting factor because it was 'reasonable'.
What Nextflix does is quite an impressive feat. It's not easy. They aren't trying to be mean or anything. They are trying to run a business that pays for itself and pulls a respectable profit to pass on to its employees and owners (including stock holders).
They could have raised prices to fix the problem. Would that be more reasonable to you people.
Maybe if you sign up for two or three accounts then you will get the movies you want. Large families and heavy users might have to in the future.
If they didn't change their practices then maybe they would have gone out of business and you would be getting 0 movies per month. Makes 15 per month look quite good. I like a company that tries to stay in business.
It isn't like they didn't tell you:
"Netflix, Inc., reserves the right, from time to time, with or without notice to you, to change these Terms of Use in our sole and absolute discretion." http://www.netflix.com/TermsOfUse?hnjr=8#changes
I don't see how a class action law-suit could go through. If it does then you might be in the 0 movies per month category again.
Why not vote with your feet and stop buying their service?
It would be a shame if this doesn't get modded-up. I apologize for not joining in this big pirater pity party.
If something not profitable then why would people want to do it? Perfectly designed software has its place (ATM's for instance) but at some point it's not profitable (Video Games and Microsoft Operating Systems apparently).
Most public education ends up being not profitable. That's because of the way it's run not because it couldn't provide the education for less than the amount being paid.
What about colleges? People are willing to pay for education. Education could be profitable. Lots of private schools make profits. Few people run schools out of the goodness of their hearts.
There is plenty of competition and profit in education. Why do you think people look at so many colleges searching for the one that is right for them.
Public education is not profitable because there is no drive for it to be profitable. If a public high-school profits then where does the money go? Maybe to pay for the roof of the town hall, or if they are lucky, back to the tax payers next year.
Private schools aren't expensive schools. People pay a lot yes but clearly the education from the school is more valuable than dollars given to the school.
It costs the tax payers in my town 13k per student per year for public schooling. If every kid got a 13k voucher then plenty of schools would pop up offering great education for the price. Yes school owners and teachers would make lots of money but the kids would get better education because there is better competition.
Right now competition is difficult because it involves moving between towns. The public schools practically have a monopoly.
How many Ivy League schools are public schools? That's how many government controlled ivy league software companies there would be.
Back to your earlier post:
So called problems:
1 - The company's cashflow is based arround selling new versions of the software Yes. If a new version is just the same as the last one but much more stable then maybe people will buy it. Depends on the marketing and word of mouth. Maybe some people will prefer the cheaper older version that crashed more often the same as some people buy a cheaper used car that breaks more often. There is nothing wrong with that in my opinion.
2 - They can't sell to it's customers improvements that they customers can't see I cant see the interest rate on a loan any more than I can see the stability and reliability of a program I use. Customers buy lower interest rates all the time.
3 - There is a fixed time that can go by beetween one release and the next one There is? Microsoft doesn't update Minesweeper very often. When is the next fixed release on that software?
4 - Resources are limited They are? I've never heard of a company hiring new people and buying more machines. What limit?
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Because I am a mean old man, on at least one occasion I have visited the Apple store only to find someone has parked their new car in the parking lot...
How does this make me a mean old man?
When I find that mistake has been made, I run my key down the side of their car before leaving.
I have to admit, I never thought of looking for new tires, but I am not sure I am mean enough to slash someones tires...
Though I have considered smashing their windows.
I am trying to educate little darlings.
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I agree, Why are people complaining so much?
Obviously Unlimited does not mean Unlimited.
There are many limits.
The most restrictive right now is the throttling.
After that it is the Post Office. (Nextflix could hire people to deliver, just like pizza, in just hours depending on the closest distribution point.)
After that is the number of movies that exist in the world. You obviously can't have all of them.
Why do people consider 45 Unlimited and 15 limited?
If you have a family of 25 people with 10 TVs then 45 might be quite limited. Yet people didn't complain when the Post Office was the limiting factor because it was 'reasonable'.
What Nextflix does is quite an impressive feat. It's not easy. They aren't trying to be mean or anything. They are trying to run a business that pays for itself and pulls a respectable profit to pass on to its employees and owners (including stock holders).
They could have raised prices to fix the problem. Would that be more reasonable to you people.
Maybe if you sign up for two or three accounts then you will get the movies you want. Large families and heavy users might have to in the future.
If they didn't change their practices then maybe they would have gone out of business and you would be getting 0 movies per month. Makes 15 per month look quite good. I like a company that tries to stay in business.
It isn't like they didn't tell you:
"Netflix, Inc., reserves the right, from time to time, with or without notice to you, to change these Terms of Use in our sole and absolute discretion."
http://www.netflix.com/TermsOfUse?hnjr=8#changes
I don't see how a class action law-suit could go through. If it does then you might be in the 0 movies per month category again.
Why not vote with your feet and stop buying their service?
It would be a shame if this doesn't get modded-up. I apologize for not joining in this big pirater pity party.
lol
If something not profitable then why would people want to do it?
Perfectly designed software has its place (ATM's for instance) but at some point it's not profitable (Video Games and Microsoft Operating Systems apparently).
Most public education ends up being not profitable. That's because of the way it's run not because it couldn't provide the education for less than the amount being paid.
What about colleges?
People are willing to pay for education. Education could be profitable. Lots of private schools make profits. Few people run schools out of the goodness of their hearts.
There is plenty of competition and profit in education. Why do you think people look at so many colleges searching for the one that is right for them.
Public education is not profitable because there is no drive for it to be profitable. If a public high-school profits then where does the money go? Maybe to pay for the roof of the town hall, or if they are lucky, back to the tax payers next year.
Private schools aren't expensive schools. People pay a lot yes but clearly the education from the school is more valuable than dollars given to the school.
It costs the tax payers in my town 13k per student per year for public schooling. If every kid got a 13k voucher then plenty of schools would pop up offering great education for the price. Yes school owners and teachers would make lots of money but the kids would get better education because there is better competition.
Right now competition is difficult because it involves moving between towns. The public schools practically have a monopoly.
How many Ivy League schools are public schools?
That's how many government controlled ivy league software companies there would be.
Back to your earlier post:
So called problems:
1 - The company's cashflow is based arround selling new versions of the software
Yes. If a new version is just the same as the last one but much more stable then maybe people will buy it. Depends on the marketing and word of mouth. Maybe some people will prefer the cheaper older version that crashed more often the same as some people buy a cheaper used car that breaks more often. There is nothing wrong with that in my opinion.
2 - They can't sell to it's customers improvements that they customers can't see
I cant see the interest rate on a loan any more than I can see the stability and reliability of a program I use. Customers buy lower interest rates all the time.
3 - There is a fixed time that can go by beetween one release and the next one
There is? Microsoft doesn't update Minesweeper very often. When is the next fixed release on that software?
4 - Resources are limited
They are? I've never heard of a company hiring new people and buying more machines. What limit?
There's a thing called cost-benefit analysis.
If the cost of redesigning is greater than the benefit then it's not worth doing.
Apparently it's better right now to patch.
Let the market decide.
If a redesign is really a lot better then someone will do it an they will make a big profit.
Yay for free market.