The importance of business of streaming and digital services

Hello again, dear reader(s).

I’m sure that just like me, you are almost done seeing everything that Netflix, Amazon or Crunchyroll can offer to you, right? Yeah, I’m starting to running out of options here. But if there’s one thing that we can’t complain is that thank God that streaming services are a common thing now.

Imagine if we were having this pandemic in 80’s or 90’s. I’m not saying that we wouldn’t survive because back then we didn’t have internet or streaming services, but, man, we would be bored as hell just reading the same old physical magazines and watching the same old stuff on tv.

I love video games and I used to play a lot. I still play it, but I just don’t have the time as I did back then. Video games did not change that much since the Atari days, back in the 80’s. I mean, you still use a joystick, a cartridge (or disk) game to play the game and that’s it.

But what really change after all these years is how you can acquire your games to play. Today we don’t need to rely only on cartridges or discs, but we also can play these same games by downloading then. We don’t need to get out of our houses to buy a game, we can buy the game at the internet and the play it in our video game system. And believe me, When we can’t go out like before, having the option to pay for the game play it at your home, is one of those things that can save a soul.

For a long time, the debate between physic games and digital games have been great, because people are afraid that digital only games can disappear from the digital market, and that is a really good point, but I think it’s also good to have options. Even with services like iTunes and Spotify, people can still buy CDs and even Vinyls to listen their favorite bands. I understand having physical copies as a way to preserve history, and I’m totally down with that, but to abolish digital games, is out of question, specially now with Covid-19.

Business as services such as Netflix and Youtube are essential in this day and age, even more now with moments like this, that we are not able to leave our houses. And I really think, for the better or worse, that streaming services are here to stay and they are going to be the normal. Of course, there is this endless debate about what we own versus what we rent with digital services like these. But I think that as the same way that a disc or paper can vanish with time, so digital things that does not have a way to do a backup.

But I can say for sure that I can’t go back to the walkman or discman days because I listen to a lot of musics. I can’t imagine how many discs or tapes I would have to carry inside my backpack.

Is business ever going to go back to "normal"?

I miss a lot of stuff. I miss college, I miss my friends, I miss my routine, I miss the metro (not the supermarket). The only thing that I don’t miss, is waking up so early as I have to do to arrive in my class on time. I’m a creature of the night, so I’m always sleeping late. And when I have to study, I study better at night. Although I have more “free” time to do other stuff, I am not well enough to be “useful”, but I am starting to adapt to this new routine, while I really miss my old routine.

My reality is now the same reality of milion, if not billions, of people that had your life on “standby” because of Covid-19. And I know that once a cure, vaccine or even a treatment appear, things will go back to what we used to have. But the question is… is it, really? I mean, maybe this time that we are having is a good time to reflect about our life and our routines.

Is it okay for us to still living like we were before? Working to death in offices like we did before? Spending more time on work than our houses or with our family? I’m not saying that we should only work on home office, I already said before that we are ready to do home office work because we are ready to adapt, but that doesn’t mean that we only have to work from our homes or houses. Too much of anything is always bad. Being in quarantine for a month is bad, as bad as it is bad staying one month away from home/family because of the work.

People are discovering that for some jobs, working at home SOMETIMES is not a bad thing. People are discovering that for some jobs, working at the office is way better. People are discovering that that reunion does not have to be made and only an email can be send to everyone. People are discovering that our work life can be better and yet be effective to the company. We can have more times for ourselves and still be a good worker for a company. 

Covid-19 is something that is affecting everyone in the world, no exceptions. I can’t wait for the day that a vaccine, a treatment or cure will be announced, but we are having time to see our priorities in life, we are having time to understand and see what kind of life we are living as humans beings and we are seeing that we can make changes to change our lives for better.

The world cannot be the same as it were before, we can’t be the sames as we were before. our jobs and our obligations cannot be the sames as it were before. Not everything is working as it were before, but somehow we are still surviving, right? So, maybe we can make adjustments and fix what is definitely going wrong. We have to work, but we also can have a good life while working.