Really hoping the funny part is going to be having people evaluate if they need Netflix and deciding to drop them altogether.
There was no evaluation and as stated above we are keeping Netflix.
Families share services my brother and parents are all in separate houses a few miles apart. If Verizon told us we couldn't be on a family plan anymore we would leave Verizon just like we left Netflix. We are still a family. It would be fun to have Apple say we can't share iCloud anymore due to location.
Apple’s business model is different than Netflix. There is no share hardware. If you have an iphone or iPad you can do whatever the software installed on the iphone lets you do. I pay for a family iCloud account, that’s part of Apple’s business model. Apple services can’t be consumed without an iphone, except for those exposed on the web and even then some subscription is required.
My family isn't smart enough to manage their own plan and I would shrink mine to a lower tier. Family is family. It's Netflix's choice and I hope they lose for it. I am against sharing with strangers but it's funny how most companies don't dictate what defines family. It's fine though I'm hoping we go the same route as Spain and they drop a few million customers as a result.
Sure hope that a company fails because you don’t like their TOS that’s schadenfreude. Netflix isn’t defining a family it’s defining a primary location.
No one in my family watches enough Netflix to have their own account that's just fact. I was the one paying for it my parents usually only did if I put something on for them when I was visiting and my brother could care less. I kept the account so any of them could watch if they wanted. Netflix thinks they are dying because there was 50 people using my account and had a schedule to make sure only 4 people were ever using it at once. Sound ridiculous? It's because it is.
The above is convulted. If you are saying you put on Netflix in your home for your guests, what’s the problem with that. If you are saying you gave out your password so that your family could watch Netflix at multiple locations, well that’s now gone. And if you cancel, Netflix won’t care.
They didn't get more money from my family they now get nothing from us.
And now you are within the tos and not stealing their content.
I really hope that's the decision people make.
It won’t go the way your think, imo.
My friend who lives in Colorado has a husband overseas most of the year. They just cancelled. No reason to try to talk to support or anything just drop Netflix.
This won’t encourage people. You can feel free to cancel and rant on the internet, but people will do what they want.
If the company dies maybe the content will end up with a better provider.
While anything is possible…remember when Tim Cook took the helm. Apple was doomed and Apple according to some still is doomed. People need to refresh their memories on what “doomed” really means.
I was honestly the ideal customer for them paying every month and maybe using the service 20 hours in a year between 4 family members.
Netflix didn’t care how much you used the service, nor that you were even a customer. They are providing a service and it’s up the customer to decide if the service is for them.
I was going to subscribe for a month once a year to maybe watch a few things I've decided against even doing that. They will either suffer and lower prices or finally offer a cheaper 4K single plan or they will do great and I guess I miss out on the couple things I want to watch. Not really going to lose any sleep over it.
So don’t subscribe for a month. You are missing out on content. I do agree a cheaper 4K option would probably bring up the subscriber numbers. But I guess Netflix did it’s homework.
People need to stop spouting this moral high ground trash and look at real situations.
Only you can decide if the service is worth it. People are posting their opinions the same as you as spouting yours.
Netflix has decided to define family their own way.
They have defined a location. They don’t care is it’s a college dorm room.
People have every right to complain about it. Plenty of us are doing the right thing and just voting with our wallets.
As people have a right to complain, people have a right to say it’s within Netflixs’ right to run their business as they see fit.
My favorite part of all of this is if I rent out my basement and three people move in they are family by Netflix's definition.
They are a location, not a family.
They could fully use my account and it’s completely legal per the TOS. So yeah Netflix has an interesting definition of "Family" I hope it bites them.
It probably won’t. As their are others who will now subscribe, where before they weren’t subscribers.
If Netflix was smart they would just let each screen have an account. Plenty of services that if you buy a family plan you just get that many people/slots for that price.
Their new TOS and plan doesn’t seem to suit your needs. Are you annoyed that Netflix is running their business the way they want?
They could lock it down so each person is stuck to their home to prevent sharing with strangers. So literally do what they are currently doing but 4 streams is 4 people where ever they may reside.
For whatever reason, Netflix doesn’t see the above as their business model. And I have to believe they did their homework, based on what happened in other countries prior to the US.
That would allow my friends Husband to use his account overseas. It would allow me to let my parents and brother have accounts and I would actually join again. The concept that I would pay over 20 bucks a month for 4 streams I can never use living by myself then pay more on top of that to let my parents watch is pretty hilarious.
It’s real hilarious. Sure 4 streams for 4 people. Maybe Netflix should lock down the 4 people with biometric authentication. That’s not the way it works. 4 streams simultaneously from 4 devices in the primary location.
I think I'll have more entertainment when Q2/Q3 stats come out for the company than I ever did using the service.
Or you may be surprised at the results that people don’t have the same thought process as you and see their numbers go up.