20th September 2011, 7:47 PM
Your argument is pretty poor, it's kind of hard to understand how you keep making it. Fewer people get magazines than have in the past, so nobody should in the future? (The same would apply to newspapers, but those of course don't go in the mailbox.) More people use online bill paying and banking, so no one will want paper for either in the future (as if all companies you might get bills from even have online payment, which is not always the case; my oil company, for instance, doesn't)? Just print things out instead, as if ink isn't expensive? What? Those are all ridiculous.
No, those are in no way good counter-arguments against my points. They're quite obviously wrong. You don't seem to be able to understand the difference between "less" and "none"... as in, yes it's less now, but it still serves an important purpose.
Oh, as for Netflix, I don't think they want to get rid of the DVD business, they're just separating the two. Maybe in the long run they want to get rid of it, we'll have to see, but there'll certainly be demand for that for quite some time into the future. It's not like everybody has an internet connection good enough to stream from, after all, or the setup to stream from their TV as opposed to just a computer, or wants just streaming instead of actual DVDs... and of course the selection is more limited in their streaming service than their actual disc service, too, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
No, those are in no way good counter-arguments against my points. They're quite obviously wrong. You don't seem to be able to understand the difference between "less" and "none"... as in, yes it's less now, but it still serves an important purpose.
Quote:And, if people didn't think the way I do, snail mail would still be a profitable enterprise.This is of course ridiculous as well. Most people see value in the mail, I'm sure, but don't use it for personal letters anymore. That's why the postal service has a problem now -- not because people don't see value in what it does, they do. It's because mail volume is down and dropping thanks to the internet. The two issues are not the same, and nor are their solutions.
Oh, as for Netflix, I don't think they want to get rid of the DVD business, they're just separating the two. Maybe in the long run they want to get rid of it, we'll have to see, but there'll certainly be demand for that for quite some time into the future. It's not like everybody has an internet connection good enough to stream from, after all, or the setup to stream from their TV as opposed to just a computer, or wants just streaming instead of actual DVDs... and of course the selection is more limited in their streaming service than their actual disc service, too, and I don't see that changing anytime soon.