This is filler; they are no more inevitable now than they were doomed a year ago. It's still a rapidly changing landscape, they still own a lot of the territory, and it's still very difficult to guess the future. (My only guess is a negative one; the market is not stable with every content company owning their own streaming service, because consumers are not going to pay 15 bills a month for video content, no matter how cheap they are. Someone's going to aggregate, somehow. My guess about the how is something more like an Amazon hybrid model of subscription + optional premium content, but Netflix is putting up a good fight on the subscription-only side, so.... shrug.)