[WisNorCan]

The most perplexing thing about Netflix is that even though they have a reputation for hiring the best, I can’t think of a single way that the experience is better than Disney, HBO or Apple TV.

And this is after 25 years of investing in technology.

[dehrmann]

Don't forget that Netflix was early to the streaming game. The others likely hired a few key Netflix people on the tech side to avoid having to relearn their lessons. The others (except for Apple) were also earlier to the content space, so their back catalogs are better.

[WisNorCan]

That is true. But you would expect that they would have found something really substantive to show after 25 years of investing in technology.

I am not sure what the lesson is. But something seems to have gone really wrong for Netflix. Not just on the content side, but also with their technology investments.

[djohnston]

I disagree, their tech put them into the spotlight, they never had content. In the streaming industry content can't be copied or replicated as easy as years-old technology.

My point is they could never get this far without their tech edge but it won't keep them afloat in the copyright-laden world we inhabit.

[JBits]

For me, Netflix's UI works pretty well while the Disney+ UI is an exercise in frustration. With Disney+, watching the credits required clicking on just the right bit and there's no obvious way to go from the episode itself to the episode list.

[polotics]

Disney+ UI is bad but for me Amazon prime is the worst: the super invasive and spoilery Amazon X-Ray display that keeps popping up will make me just stop the TV. But Netflix is also there with the worst, having for example on Better Call Saul season six a complete spoiler content advisory warning top-left, prominent full time on screen always: "this is how this character's arc from episode 1,2,3 will end, you can stop watching now. Completely destroyed the work of the actors an writers for me, and I don't want to watch the remaining 9 episodes thank you...

[bombcar]

Disney+ is seriously confused about credits - at times it instantly minimizes and threatens you with the next episode/movie (often when there is still “stuff” happening) and other times it makes you sit through literally ten minutes of credits in every language known to man and some unknown before advancing to the next.

[fragmede]

Same with HBO. Their UX needs a bunch of work and it just makes me miss Netflix. But you gotta go where the content is.

[emerged]

Hulu is the worst of all IMO. Then you pay to remove ads to discover oh that’s not all ads. It’s some particular subset of ads.