Does it matter that HBO Max leaves Roku and Amazon Fire users waiting?

The business implications of AT&T excluding Amazon and Roku users from HBO Max

Today's fun, entertaining debate on Twitter has been about the implications of HBO Max excluding Amazon and Roku users from its launch.

The lengthy debate touches upon something I wrote two months ago about HBO Max's hiring of Jason Kilar:

[AT&T's] John Stankey wants to grow wireless subscribers and reduce wireless churn with HBO Max as an add-on service,…