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Amazon to Acquire MGM for $8.45 Billion Amid Competition With the Likes of Netflix and Apple TV+
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Yeah they’ll never be worthy of actually paying for with their literally just a handful of shows. I couldn’t care less about Oprah let alone her commiserating with celebrities about how hard their gazillion dollar lives are.
if Apple can acquire WWE, TV+ should be able to compete with Disney+, and with content like G4TV shows, TV+ can be #1
Skyfall was great, the plot, acting, scenes, bond being a desperate underdog, surprises and ending was epic!
the one after SPECTRE? suffered from poor continuity writing.
FANTASTIC NEWS!..."No Time To Die""James Bond..."
So does this mean the next bond film will be out on Prime?
Can't wait to go visit the re-themed Amazon Prime Grand in Las Vegas...
At this point I'd just like one company to gobble them all up so I can not have fragmented subscriptions. Its more expensive than cable TV now!
it also does not help that their release schedule is not transparent at all. They just randomly drop something and you are supposed to know about it
Oh good, maybe they'll finally release the last Bond film!
I've been thoroughly enjoying 'For All Mankind' on Apple TV, well written and acted I think. I like the streaming services as you can subscribe and unsubscribe at will, so you can watch your program then if nothing else interests you cancel.
I've been thoroughly enjoying 'For All Mankind' on Apple TV, well written and acted I think. I like the streaming services as you can subscribe and unsubscribe at will, so you can watch your program then if nothing else interests you cancel.
That's a very good point. However, you're assuming that only young generation are on Apple TV+.
Ted as in “Ted Lasso” the Lead Character on one of their shows, and Mac: or Ronald McDonald, a character Rob McElhenney played in It’s always sunny, who plays the Lead in their series Mythic Quest.
So in full detail Ted = Ted Lasso, Mac = Ronald McDonald
AKA they have Ted and Mac
Would have been a worthy addition to Apple TV+. Oh well
Not really.
There is a massive tension between a company like Apple and a company like MGM.
- Apple is all about limiting value to the users of Apple hardware.
- MGM is all about maximizing distribution to anyone who can pay dollars to see their content
Should the agenda of the MGM manager within Apple be to push Apple exclusives (and limit new movies, very expensive to produce) to trying to amortize their cost over the limited Apple user base? Or should the agenda be trying to strike up deals to make money from Tivo, Roku, Netflix, Google, and anywhere else the movie can be sold?
Apple seem (for now) to be content to have TV+ be populated with "Apple Exclusives" and (I assume) to have TV+ on various other pieces of hardware more to satisfy their existing customers than to pick up new customers. But honestly I don't get the TV+ strategy and I suspect at some point it will collapse under this contradiction -- there will be a falling out between the manager of TV+ (with the agenda of getting it everywhere) and the rest of Apple (with the agenda of "how does this help Apple as a whole?")
For Amazon this acquisition makes a lot more sense because Amazon is in the same business as MGM -- it's all about wide distribution to everyone, not narrow specialization to just the Amazon select. Amazon doesn't care if you run Prime on your iPad, LG TV, or Samsung Phone. And ultimately, hell, it doesn't even much care if you watch James Bond on Prime or on Netflix, as long as Netflix pays them a few dollars for James Bond.
But it's not really about existing content. This deal will significantly boost Amazon's content creation ability, both in scope and scale, but also most importantly through experience. They'll be aquiring a lot of top tier talent through this as well as rights to some of the biggest films and franchises.
Apple could make a few hundred features for 9 billion easy, and I'm sure the quality will be top-notch if some of their existing stuff is anything to go by. But they'll still be a small and inexperienced fish in a very big pond.
I think this was truly a missed opportunity for Apple. Without a lot more content AppleTV+ will never take off. James Bond franchise alone would have been worth acquiring. I am still on the fence whether to sign up again and if it wasn't for Foundation coming I wouldn't even consider it. Prime I will for sure keep now although it already gave me strong reasons to keep! $10 per month i get 2 days shipping plus tons of movies and tv shows.
Stevie wonder can tell you the worse investment by Apple is Apple TV because there isn’t anything worth a glance. It’s an insult to even say Apple TV is a competitor. My free subscription remains free until July and I don’t even bother except for canceling it. Absolutely trash!
The problem if u want to admit it is that Apple is true to its own culture. A culture of arrogance and a company that doesn’t care what you want. Case in point look at the crapola of stuff they bring out (bad keyboards, touchbars, etc). They are so full of themselves they live in this huge financial bubble thinking they it last forever. They are so out of touch even their own executives eat up their own nonsense.