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by kbutler 3290 days ago
This is exactly the model of the Roku - it started out as a Netflix Player, but realized that deals with other content providers would be key, and that other Netflix platforms may not want to compete with a Netflix-provided player, and so Netflix spun it off.

It's a $1.5B company now (not monopolistic/huge, but a nice business...)