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stumpcity t1_iwr3d55 wrote

Reply to comment by JeddHampton in Roku to Lay Off 200 Employees, Cutting Headcount by 7% by MarvelsGrantMan136

No, they didn't. They needed to continue being basically the short-form brand name for streaming platforms, period, and they took their eye off that ball by trying to be a programmer.

Their product declined, people don't like it compared to other offerings, and now their brand is diminished.

It was a bad call. Corporations make those all the time. It's not like executives are somehow infallible geniuses who are in the position they're in because of their unassailable intellectual acumen.

Rich people can (and do) fuck up.

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Apolaustic1 t1_iwrbm3e wrote

>Their product declined, people don't like it compared to other offerings

Considering literally everyone (including in this thread) talk about how they have the best software for streaming, that's a really bold statement to make.

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stumpcity t1_iwrbydc wrote

>Considering literally everyone (including in this thread) talk about how they have the best software for streaming,

That's not happening. Not here, not "literally" everywhere, either.

edit: if I only had that thing in me that causes me to root for and pledge allegiance to brands and brand concerns like it was a sports team, LOL.

"Literally everyone says its the best software" = 4 people in a reddit thread about Roku laying people off, talking to each other.

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stumpcity t1_iwrlehr wrote

>Lmao look around the rest of the comments, and then come back to ours and look at the up and downvotes.

You realize this doesn't actually mean anything right? It's not a scoreboard. You don't "win" at opinions because the doots point one way or the other. Because the doots don't mean anything. Having a bunch means exactly the same as having negative amounts. Because four people on a subreddit hit the downarrow doesn't have any intrinsic meaning. It's four people. Online. In a thread about Roku laying off 200 people. in the middle of a workday.

>considering we're arguing about the popularity of a service I think this small sample size does great job representing the overall picture.

You're arguing that based on the actions of four people in a reddit subthread the completely bullshit "stat" you threw out regarding "literally everyone" saying they're the best at streaming is, in fact, now proven true.

This is not how that works, LOL.

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