Comment Re:Ghostship (Score 1) 3
I'm still around, but spend most of my time on reddit.
If I end up having to pay for your lack of preparedness, which I am, yes.
Awaiting Netcraft confirmation of its demise.
They have enough other characters that Mickey and Minnie have become obsolete. I was just there and we saw those two in only very limited circumstances.
I'm in my 40s and in a leadership role at my company; I refuse to use or accept business cards from anyone and have for more than 20 years. There is absolutely no reason, whatsoever, that anyone should use them in 2022.
This is the context which should have been added to the blurb IMHO. Over the course of 2021, Google was doing ~5.6B per day.
While 2.5B in a year is admirable, particularly because competition in the search space is incredibly important; Brave isn't even making a dent.
They're not inexpensive in the least (an S90 starts at 52K) and are quite comparable in price to BMW and Mercedes. I am not claiming those are 'rich person's toys' but there are plenty of folks who make good money and are driving them.
1. Netflix used to have popular movies and TV shows that were either more prominent (unsearchable/algorithmically curated view is NOT advantageous) or simply are no longer available due to planning or competition from other services.
2. HBO Max is absolutely destroying Netflix (and other services) in quality content--both created as well as curated.
3. HBO Max started coming 'free' with my mobile phone plan whereas Netflix is raising its prices and offering me less quality content.
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I realize it's not an easy solution on the content side, but there are other opportunities for Netflix to really make a dent in their losses, but for whatever reason they're just not doing it.
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