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Apple Looking to Purchase 'James Bond' Film Distribution Rights
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Apple hasn't released the new Mac Pro or Mac Mini because their teams aren't focused. Delving into new markets can only be contributing to Apple's lack of upgrades. It's definitely not helping, anyway. It's like they have A.D.D. or something.
You can only speculate why they have not released a new mac Pro or Mac Mini.
Only when you can show some independently verifiable proof of the above and not your own interpretation will your claim be valid.
There isn't any need to speculate about the Mac Pro, they've confirmed why. They made a computer with a a silly design which couldn't handle the thermals of high end GPUs and it took them almost four years to reach this conclusion.
You don't know when they actually realized their thermal issue, only when they made it public.
It still doesn't prove the other claim by the other poster.
Ok took them nearly four years to acknowledge it then. The reason an update hasn't shipped isn't speculation either way.
You don't take four years to acknowledge a problem with a product that is getting any kind of attention.
Thanks!
Ranking for Bonds
1: Daniel Craig: He aint' no punk
2: Pierce Bronson: Started shift away from corny
3: Sean Connery: He effectively started the franchise, so props
4: Timothy Dalton: See number 5
5: Roger Moore: Turned James Bond into a punk. (check Man with the Golden Gun dojo scene where he is running like a little girl)
6: David Niven: Has to go above number 7
7: George Lazenby: Yikes!
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I wouldn't mind this one.
1. Sean Connery - Personifies the attitude of Bond from the books. Confidence. Charisma. Some would say that in today's world he'd be labeled as the epitome of political incorrectness.
2. Daniel Craig - Brought back much of the edge and attitude of Connery's Bond. Really enjoyed his performance in Skyfall.
3. Roger Moore - Always called him the Disco Bond. Some of those movies were just terrible! Moonraker? Seriously?!?!
4. Pierce Brosnan - Not bad per se, but just dull.
5. Timothy Dalton - Brought a strange edge to Bond that I did not enjoy
6. David Niven - Meh.
7. George Lazenby - Hey, for a guy that basically conned the producers, he did a pretty good job! Check out Becoming Bond on Netflix.
Since when is bringing better products to market than the competition beside the point? Netflix, Amazon and Hulu are racking up Emmy noms and wins, and Apple has two shows that can double as commercials for their app and music stores. Apple's so late to the game that they don't get 'Hey, we are just figuring this out' benefit of the doubt like, say, Netflix did with Lilyhammer. Apple has had years to monitor what works and what doesn't (as well as a huge pile of money) so it's understandable that people are expecting an iPod/Diamond Rio situation to unfold at any moment.
No one made the assertion that Apple didn't have enough money though. The assertion is basically, "Apple has all this money, why don't they just buy everything and do everything" but that's not the way Apple works. They tend to move around already existing company resources as much as possible as opposed to spending a ton of money and ballooning their workforce.
Apple officially delayed Leopard because they needed to put more resources on the iPhone.
https://www.engadget.com/2007/04/12/apple-announces-leopard-delays-due-to-the-iphone/
As to whether or not Feature A slipped from one version of MacOS into the following version due to lack of man power, that's something only those inside Apple know. I have seen numerous rumors though attributing the fewer and further between updates to FCP X to members of that team getting temporary reassigned to other projects.
Right. Apple focused on growing the iPhone (which has worked out well for them so far) at the expense of things like losing a market they once dominated to a tiny competitor (Spotify), not realizing the barely-made-it-to-market-on-time 2013 MP was actually Cube 2.0 until mid-2017 (with a new and improved version coming sometime after 2018), and losing a market it basically created (easily putting Internet video on living room TVs). Again, to your point, Apple certainly had the money to significantly grow their roster and put hundreds (or even thousands) of people on each of those projects, but that's just not their MO.
Netflix competes with iTMS/Music and LG doesn't need to make a set top box because the functionality is already built directly into their smart TVs. That's my point, Apple was the first company to make it easy to buy a show/movie online and watch it on your living room TV, but now that functionality is completely pedestrian. 7 or 8 years ago Apple might have been in a position to leverage Hollywood for a streaming service or a skinny cable bundle the same way they leveraged the Music labels for digital sales back in the early 2000's, but between then and now the market has left Apple in the dust.
I think Bond will still be a feather in the cap of whichever company lands it, but even if Apple is that company they still need to make top shelf, original content in order to compete.
Let clarify. My original comment is directed at the part in red:
Again, speculation and your interpretation. Not fact.
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This is just marketing. They want to use Bond as an exclusive model for the iphone. I'm more amazed at how smooth the James Bond website is.
Buy the rights to the Bond films?
They do realize that they are probably the most overexposed movies, like in EVER!
One of the Turner channels gang runs all the movies at least once a year. Showtime has been running the movies too recently.
Yeah, pay big bucks for those. Sure, why not. (Good grief) They could give ME the money, and get more done...
They do realize that they are probably the most overexposed movies, like in EVER!
One of the Turner channels gang runs all the movies at least once a year. Showtime has been running the movies too recently.
Yeah, pay big bucks for those. Sure, why not. (Good grief) They could give ME the money, and get more done...
Sort of contradicts this:
Well we don't know that as a fact now do we?
Could be, but that all started with you here:
Fair enough so long as your happy struggling to get in and out of it, because it is a struggle, and it sounds rubbish.. compared to an Aston V12
I think the i8 is overpriced for what it is, then again it's just a tech test bed anyway.
Seem pretty mature to me not letting his political leanings influence Apple's strategic moves. Less mature it to criticize him both when he shows his beliefs than when he doesn't.
"Those close to the deal estimate the property to be worth $2-$5 billion."
James Bond worth as much as "Star Wars" ...?
Methinks not.
James Bond worth as much as "Star Wars" ...?
Methinks not.
"In recent James Bond news, Daniel Craig confirmed he'll be back to play the titular character in future movies."
He confirmed he'll do one more and that's it.
Then again, as with Sean Connery, Never say Never again
Cheeky
You're kidding right? The Daniel Craig bond films have been the best ones ever made imo... Skyfall especially was arguably the best bond movie ever.
How exactly is it an 'embarrassment'? Making billions at the box office and having great reviews doesn't seem to embarrassing to me...
Bonds going to end up with an Apple Watch in the next film isn't he?
And the DB5 will have retrofitted CarPlay.
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The franchise has gone from strength to strength since the reboot (Casino Royale). Skyfall was the best Bond movie for decades and it could be strongly argued it was the best movie in the entire franchise, it also earned over $1.1bn at the box office. Spectre was also pretty good and earned nearly $900m, but one thing is for sure, Bond is not dead!
