HBO vs Netflix, LVMH vs Amazon, iOS vs Android (video)

HBO vs Netflix

L2inc.com video above published Sep 13, 2018: HBO execs have proposed moving to a Netflix strategy. This is a terrible mistake says Scott Galloway.

Editor's note: Boutique vs Big:

• HBO vs Netflix
• LVMH vs Amazon
• Mercedes vs Toyota
• Emirates vs Southwest Airlines
• iOS vs Android

Transcript (auto-generated):
00:01 from the age of 25 to 40 i lost the
00:05 capacity to cry not once not when people
00:08 close to me passed away not when things
00:10 move me just couldn't do it for some
00:12 reason as a matter of fact the only time
00:14 I ever really felt anything I mean
00:17 really felt something between the ages
00:19 of 25 and 40 was when I was under the
00:21 influence of media specifically
00:25 television a hundred years from now TV
00:27 will be recognized as the defining art
00:29 form of our age when Michael realizes is
00:32 on the bus that killed his father Claire
00:35 reviewing her life as she is about to
00:38 pass anything with Hank from the Larry
00:40 Sanders show I will be your champion
00:43 Game of Thrones the original gangster
00:46 Sopranos a mob soldier perusing photos
00:50 of him and his family at the shore
00:51 before he hangs himself what do most of
00:53 these shows have in common three things
00:56 one h-2b and 300 HBO changed the
01:03 television landscape full stop yes they
01:05 should have seen Netflix coming but
01:07 Netflix similar to Amazon and other
01:09 unicorns was able to execute on a
01:11 strategy that HBO's parent company Time
01:13 Warner could not specifically cheap
01:16 capital without pressure for
01:18 profitability Jon stanky the new head of
01:21 Warner entertainment and by the way a
01:22 Bruin grad can't be all bad recently
01:25 addressed his troops at HBO and
01:27 described a future in which HBO would
01:29 increase its subscriber base and their
01:32 viewing hours to pull it off according
01:34 to mr. stanky HBO would have to come up
01:36 with more content and transform from a
01:39 boutique operation to something bigger
01:41 and broader in short become more Netflix
01:44 ish this was a big mistake and will kill
01:47 what is unique and special about HBO to
01:50 move HBO to an Netflix like strategy is
01:53 to walk into the MU say - or say and
01:55 announce we need to scale this makes no
01:58 sense the most efficient way to process
02:00 information binary zeros and ones and
02:02 the entire consumer sector is
02:04 bifurcating there's Amazon at zero
02:06 there's Gucci at one LVMH is at lunch
02:09 hmm is at zero in the mass category
02:12 Mercedes Toyota
02:13 blue and Southwest Airlines and then
02:15 Emirates and Qatar at the top they
02:18 survive and prosper while Delta American
02:21 United and Sears or anyone else in the
02:23 middle gets run over
02:25 we're also bifurcating as a society
02:27 we're turning into a country of three
02:28 hundred and fifty million serfs serving
02:31 three million Lords iPhones only command
02:33 18% of the market but garner 87 percent
02:38 of the profits HBO is iOS garnering not
02:41 only awards but billions in EBIT - every
02:43 year despite spending less on original
02:46 content mr. stanky is taking unnecessary
02:48 even reckless risks with a unique
02:50 process and culture and is in danger of
02:52 killing what is really special about HBO
02:55 HBO and Disney are the only firms over
02:57 the last several decades that have
02:59 managed to create a process and a
03:01 culture for pulling off the impossible
03:03 scaling creativity they attract or
03:06 maintain the not so secret sauce and
03:08 media a list talent HBO should be the
03:11 prize for switching from Verizon to AT&T;
03:13 where the handset messaging and apps can
03:16 molest people's data and pitch marketers
03:18 on there we're number three strategy to
03:21 summarize its Amazon and LVMH southwest
03:24 and Emirates iOS and Android Chipotle
03:28 and Chipotle that's right we're due for
03:32 some near Mexican fare the Big Dawg
03:34 would like to hang out and here's my
03:36 invitation of Romelu Lukaku the english
03:39 striker from Belgium he and I would just
03:42 get along we're in the line he gets a
03:44 burrito bowl I go pulled pork and boom
03:47 they say to him guacamole or cheese on
03:50 your burrito bowl mr. Lukaku and I step
03:52 and I say yes because that's how me and
03:57 Lulu that's what I call him cuz we roll
04:00 that way he calls me Scott this could
04:04 happen we'll see you next week
04:07 [Music]

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Tech Review: Amazon Plans to Disrupt Payments Industry (video)

Tech Review (TR 2017-08-12)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news:

Features • 1) Amazon Plans to Disrupt Payments Industry (video), 2) China vs WeChat, 3) Be Thankful You Don't Work for GOOGLE, 4) Why Apple Devices Are Hard to Repair, 5) ICYMI Tech News.

1) Amazon's Plan to Disrupt the Payments Industry

Lisa Ellis, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. senior research analyst, discusses Amazon.com Inc.'s push into payments with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology" on August 1, 2017.

Amazon's digital payments ecosystem:

1. An easy secure way for consumers to make online payments and merchants' to accept them with Amazon Pay (domain: pay.amazon.com).
2. Consumers can also make payments in-store via Amazon Pay Places.
3. Consumers can even add cash to their Amazon accounts and earn rewards, giving users essentially a banking account.
4. Amazon also offers other banking services such as loans.

 Source: Statista.com

Other Tech News:
2)  China Probes Social Media Giants | Variety.com: "Chinese regulators have unveiled an investigation into the country’s top three social media sites. Tencent’s WeChat, Sina Weibo and Baidu’s Tieba are accused of not doing enough to halt the publication and spread of illegal content."

3) Google proved this week it is just as intolerant of free speech as Beijing, firing employee James Damore (no prior reprimand, no prior warning), for having the temerity to suggest there are biological differences between men and women--imagine that!--suggesting there are reasons beyond "discrimination" that might account for the male-female employment gap at Google.

Fired Google Engineer Says Company Execs Shamed and Smeared Him | Bloomberg.com: "When he initially circulated the memo [a month ago], “no one high up ever came to me and said, ‘No, don't do this,’ even though there were many people who looked at it,” Damore said. “It was only after it got viral that upper management started shaming me and eventually firing me.”"

In the judgment of Big Brother, err, Big Sister, in Mountain View, his opinions were “incorrect” and violated Google’s “Code of Conduct.” The blowback was swift and persists:  Google cancels employee meeting because of harassment fears | bizjournals.com: "Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, sent an email to staff members canceling the meeting a half-hour before it was to start on Thursday."  Be thankful you don't work for Google. Google is just as Evil, if not more so, as all the rest in Silicon Valley. Read James Damore's memo below and decide for yourself--is this memo an offense justifying termination?--

As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People | Bloomberg.com: "And yet, you still have to ask whether shamestorming Damore and getting him sacked was really the best way to convince him -- or anyone else -- that he’s mistaken. Did anyone’s understanding of the complex quandaries of gender diversity advance? If there were guys at Google wondering whether the women around them really deserved their jobs, did anyone wake up the morning after Damore's firing with the revelation: “Good God, how could I have been so blind?” No, I suspect those guys are now thinking: “You see? Women can’t handle math or logic.”"

4) Why Apple and other tech companies are fighting to keep devices hard to repair | TheVerge.com: "Apple incentivizes consumers to trade in or discard models that are just 18–24 months old for newer ones."--A new report details how Apple, HP, other manufacturers influence the Green Electronics Council (domain: GreenElectronicsCouncil.org) to undermine green tech standards of reusability and repair.

5)  ICYMI Tech News:

• Facebook and Google Policing the Web Will Do More Harm Than Good | WIRED.com: "A recent law passed in Germany will require social media companies like Facebook and Twitter to remove illegal, racist, or slanderous content within 24 hours after it's flagged by a user, or face fines as large as $57 million."
• U.S. card firm Vantiv clinches $10 billion deal to buy Worldpay| Reuters.com

• Delaware Blockchain Law for Shareholders Now in Effect | Fortune.com

• U.S. to review Qualcomm's complaints about Apple iPhone patents | reuters.com

• HBO offers $250,000 as 'bounty payment' to hackers: Variety | Reuters.com

• Ranking Websites by Demographics | Quantcast.com

• Salesforce fires red team staffers who gave Defcon talk | ZDNet.com: "Schwartz and Cramb are now being represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The specific reason for the firing is unknown."
• How your smartphone is ruining your life | independent.co.uk: "We are giving children devices that have the potential to become addictive at a time when their impulse control and judgement isn't fully developed," explains Tanya Goodin, founder of Time To Log Off. "We expecting them to self-regulate their use: even though we are witnessing mounting mental health issues," the author of OFF told The Independent."
• Consumer Reports pulls recommendations of Microsoft Surface laptops: "... Microsoft’s laptops and tablets will experience breakage rates of 25% within two years of ownership, loosely defined as any issue that comes up that prevents the computer from working as the owner expects ..."Windows 10 after two years: Microsoft's mixed report card | ZDNet.com: "Windows 7 still remains the most popular Windows version."
• "Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google are hardly unbeatable. They're actually vulnerable."--Is 'FAANG' More Dangerous Than The '4 Horsemen' Of The Late 1990s And The 'Nifty Fifty' Of The Early 1970s?  | SeekingAlpha.com
• Russia Hack? "The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) have been investigating the now conventional wisdom that last year's leaks of Democratic National Committee files were the result of Russian hacks. What they found instead is evidence to the contrary."--Why Some U.S. Ex-Spies Don't Buy the Russia Story | Bloomberg.com.
  

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