> I'm frankly annoyed that so many people call this a problem. Sure, I understand the surface level inconvenience of this fragmentation, but I think we're getting a little spoiled here.
The problem as I see it is done of the companies are selling the product that the consumers want. With individual companies all trying to maximize the revenue generated by what they control, the industry as a whole has become hostile.
It seems it will stay hostile until the big players get squished by the gigantic players, or consumer protection groups get stuck in and things get regulated. For a while it looked like consumers would get what they wanted, which is a monopoly provider of all content at an affordable price, from Netflix or Amazon or both. But now we have this mess of content producers and legacy platforms all fighting for the same slice of pie.
The problem as I see it is done of the companies are selling the product that the consumers want. With individual companies all trying to maximize the revenue generated by what they control, the industry as a whole has become hostile.
It seems it will stay hostile until the big players get squished by the gigantic players, or consumer protection groups get stuck in and things get regulated. For a while it looked like consumers would get what they wanted, which is a monopoly provider of all content at an affordable price, from Netflix or Amazon or both. But now we have this mess of content producers and legacy platforms all fighting for the same slice of pie.