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Also, you might finally streamFriendsagain (or, if youre me, every episode ofScooby-Doo.)

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(Its not hard to find folks on social mediapissedoffabout this.)

It hasnt crippled the new streamer.

Having those other names just made things exponentially worse.

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Max programmers shouldve addressed this before the service launched.

(Be sure to come back next week for my 1,000-word essay onFloor Is Lava, Netflixs No.

1 show for much of the past week, at least per Netflix.)

Will AT&T soon text millions of customers and tell them Roku is holding their HBO hostage?

Rich Greenfield and his fellow media analysts over at Lightshed Partners are predicting the former is more likely.

The implications go beyond just HBO.

Unlike Apple or Disney+ or [shudder] Quibi, its not starting from scratch building its streamer.

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