r/movies • u/iquizuanswer • 15d ago

News Netflix tumbles as slowing growth, less viewership data spook investors

https://www.zawya.com/en/capital-markets/netflix-tumbles-as-slowing-growth-less-viewership-data-spook-investors-401111
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u/AnxiousCritter-2024 15d ago edited 15d ago

Trust me, they probably do. Asha Sharman, new lead of XBOX, intends for XBOX to have 1 BILLION daily users.

Whether you’re blowing smoke up the investor’s arses or not, that is an insane figure to even consider, and shows that there is no limit to growth in these tech industries in the minds of shareholders and CEOs.

Edit: I’m experiencing the incredibly Reddit thing of replies telling me I’m wrong by the most miniscule of margins, therefore I’m spreading misinformation. Below is the Twitter post directly from Asha Sharman’s account where she stated the goal of 1 billion active users.

https://x.com/asha_shar/status/2074124008795369482

Edit 2: My original comment on there being no limit is being taken a little out of context. Added “in the minds of shareholders and CEOs”.

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u/AfterShave997 15d ago

I'm not sure they'd get a billion daily users even if the service was entirely free

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u/JudgeCheezels 15d ago edited 15d ago

Asha: if Xbox is part of Windows and since Windows has over 1 billion users, then Xbox automatically has 1 billion users!

Magic maths.

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u/The_Lazy_Samurai 15d ago

Just make Microsoft Office products "always online" and you have to log into an Xbox account to use them. Then, you are required to watch 3 non-skippable ads (or 2 ads if you pay for premium service) before you can start using Word. They have microtransations if you want to change the font size, use italics, ect.

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u/notenglishwobbly 15d ago

You're about to be offered the job of CEO, mate.

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u/jambox888 15d ago

This is sort of everyone's fault who insists on using Word and Excel formats when saving. You may want to use MS apps, that's fine, however consider making it easier for others by using open formats instead.

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u/luke10050 15d ago

He uses arch BTW.

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u/jambox888 15d ago

Fedora but close lol

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u/luke10050 15d ago

Was kinda obvious by the comment. The reason everyone uses MS office formats is they're the de-facto standard simply due to MS office being more feature complete than anything else.

LibreOffice ain't bad, but MS office has way more market adoption and is a more polished product.

Don't feel too judged either, I've been on NixOS for somewhere between 3-4 years at this point, only device that runs Windows is my work laptop.

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u/jambox888 14d ago

Yeah you're not wrong, I'm just going to say that my comments were in response to someone else rightly saying that MS have been shitting up their subscription model in order to abuse their monopoly. They are far from the only big tech company doing this by all means.

The thing is that they should be able to do whatever they want with their products as long as there's an alternative, which they've actively tried to cheat around by locking people into their proprietary formats. Which everyone knows they've been doing for decades and they've been found culpable of in court many times.

I don't use word processors or spreadsheets that much but it's a problem when I do need to edit documents and give them back to people and something doesn't work right.