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Award show wins are a useful, if imperfect, proxy for power shifts within an industry.
Mental modelThe map is not the territory
Their wordsAward shows remain mostly silly and subjective, but they're an interesting directional proxy for power in the various industries
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Mental modelLock-in and switching costs
Their wordsI'm not sure they fully understood that it wasn't really about juicing their numbers, but about churn prevention.
Their wordsWhile the average overall quality of Apple's shows are higher than those on Netflix or Prime Video, they still don't have the type of 'A+' content that HBO was regularly pumping out at their peak.
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