roadkill1953

tokyojimu said:

 The moves are made typically as a cost-cutting measure by the services. 

What, they can’t afford the hard disk space?

It’s all about actor’s residuals. While a show remains on the streaming service, there are ongoing payments to the main actors in the show. And they can be quite significant amounts of money.
Check out: https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/calculating-sag-residuals-17706/

Do you have to do a Google sign-in to use this app? That would be enough to make me avoid it...

How many people know that 2 fingers on the keyboard turns it into a touchpad give great cursor control?

How about some new creative possibilities for older iPads. I have one... Using Duet I can add Touchbar to my desktop Mac. But I would prefer an iPad app that just gives me Touchbar plus touchpad and keyboard - making it a very capable input device. Connected to the Mac by USB, the battery condition isn't important and would give responsiveness. Not connected to the internet. A cheap (using an older iPad) and very enabling input device.