I recently saw this neat new service that netflix is rolling
out in july 2007. Instant movies via your PC. Well, that is
freakin awesome!
Oh, well, I mean that is freakin awesome for all the Windows
users out there. For those sensitive intelligent mac users (did
i mention, I'm a recent mac convert, still floating through that
"new love haze", pro-mac, pro-linux), you'll have to continue
waiting for the DVD's to come in the mail. Because (in the small
print of course) you must be using a Windows XP or Vista PC,
and using Internet Explorer.
All software you can't pay me to use or support. I'll get a job
at Mickey D's before I diagnose another craptastic DLL problem,
or replace all my files after another distant relative surfs the
wrong sites and gets me a couple of nice virii. Anyway, I'm
rambling. On to the fun stuff.
I sent netflix the following comment, I can't wait to read the
reply. I hope hope hope its something interesting and not some
4th grade form letter.
To whom it may concern:
I really like your service, and I'm really happy about your instant movie idea. However, I must note that for this new service, you are restricting browsers and operating systems to IE (Internet Explorer) and Microsoft Windows. This is generally a sign of one of two things, both quite distasteful to me as an internet programmer/analyst :
1. You are being paid off by a large company to support only their badly written, bloated software packages (I refuse to use these packages myself).
2. You have a pile of lazy, incompetent managers and programmers who cannot expend the time and brain power to code something for the web that is platform independent (a fairly easy task these days for a decent programmer).
Given my penchant for believing the best of people, I hope that your decision to alienate me and exclude me from paying you for this neat service is based on the greater monetary gain to be had from possibility 1. It would sadden me to learn that your otherwise outstanding operation has an overpaid team of idiots such as the team laid out in possibility 2.
Thank you for your time,
Christopher Maujean
cmaujean@gmail.com
PS:
Feel free to call me (PST business hours please) 541-XXX-XXXX to discuss my feelings on this breach of consumer trust further.
I'll post their reply as soon as I get it.
