This isn’t NFLX’s first rodeo in live streaming. Have seen a handful of events pop up in their apps.
There is no excuse. All of the resources and talent at their disposal, and they looked absolutely amateurish. Poor optics.
I would be amazed if they are able to secure another exclusive contract like this in the future.
"I flew into EGLL on Monday" - pilot
I don’t do it as some sort of “signaling” for “fintech bros” or anything like that
I think I subconsciously adopted it since it made my job easier. Sort of how I use YYYYMMDD format in almost everything from programming to daily communication.
It’s a lot fewer keystrokes for MS (Morgan Stanley), GS (Goldman Sachs) and MSFT (Microsoft) than it is for AAPL, but it’s a force of habit for some. Once you’re used to referring to firms by their ticker symbols, you do it all the time.
E.g. an ex trader friend still says “spot” instead of “point” when referring to decimal points, even if talking in other contexts like software versions.
Just what the fuck are these people doing?
If I were a major investor in them I'd be pissed.
I was pointing out how dumb a multibillion dollar company is for getting this so wrong. Broadcasting live events is something that is underestimated by everyone that has never it, yet hubris of a major tech company thinking it knows better is biting them in the ass.
As many other people have commented, so many other very large dwarfing this event have been pulled off with no hiccups visible to the viewers. I have amazing stories of major hiccups during MLB World Series that viewers had no idea about happening, but “inside baseball” people knew. To the point that the head of the network caught something during the broadcast calling the director in the truck saying someone is either going to be fired or get a raise yet the audience would never have noticed if the person ended up getting fired. They didn’t, btw.
