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Apple May Develop Original TV Shows Exclusively for iTunes and Streaming TV Service
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Not many original ideas coming from Apple leadership these days. Seems like they are late to the party again if they are really considering this.
It saddens me to say, but these days, Apple reacts to markets rather than creating them.
It saddens me to say, but these days, Apple reacts to markets rather than creating them.
Likely they would just license and distribute like Netflix & Amazon and leave the production up to the creatives.
Friends was produced by Warner Brothers and sold to NBC to distribute it. Most networks don't produce their content in house. Netflix & Amazon are distributors, not content producers. Apple is likely to follow the same path.
Nah. Original content is where it's at. We don't need anymore Marvel & DC branded television shows or spinoffs of The Walking Dead.
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Can't wait for the "Show exclusively available on Apple TV is edited with Avid or Premiere" story.
i'd say other than the beginning years working primarily on PCs, i'd say nearly all of apple's biggest successes were reactions to the markets. there's only so many strokes of mad genius to be had when the rest of the industry has essentially adopted your business model and throws features and customizations at fragmented lines of their own devices.
that's like the old 1M monkeys and 1M typewriters phenomenon. certainly innovation happens there in ways apple hasn't thought of, so it certainly can appear like they're behind in some areas. now they innovate in subtler ways, like the apple pencil blowing wacoms jaggy lines and latency out of the water. or the staggered battery construction in the 2015 macbook.
it's a footrace now. there may not be another giant, crowd-pleasing innovation in consumer tech until VR or some unforeseen disruption takes a stab at shaking everything up. it's not just apple: the whole mobile/PC industry may be seeing an advanced stage of stagnation before anyone ever expected it. things are moving kinda slowly and 'catching-up' is not.
Yup. Ports and Keyboards are where the money is
What's wrong with Apple? Apple TV is a hardware. How can a hardware company go into the business of making content? What advantage it will give them? And making it exclusive for iTunes and Apple TV? Definitely the Apple management is smoking something on a regular basis.
They (ports, good keyboards) make good notebooks, good typing experience, good overall experience, good product, more sold units, makes more money.Yup. Ports and Keyboards are where the money is
You serious? You don't see how creating exclusive content can boost hardware sales and keep people within an ecosystem?
That's not my point.
They are just venturing on too many things and that compromise the quality of their current products. Yes that incudes iOS devices too.
One big hurdle for them will be data caps on comcast accounts. I love the idea of using iTunes for all my media consumption, but 300GB per month is going to kill that idea for me.
There were MP3 players before iPod and "smart" phones before iPhone. Are you suggesting that Amazon and Netflix are it and no one else should bother entering this space? Or Apple shouldn't because they didn't think of Netflix before Netflix?
it's not like Tim and Phil are going to put their heads together and pump out scripts, right? all they'd need is to hire (pilfer?) talented writers and producers and let them do their thing under the Apple brand name.
Yeah, God forbid the Apple TV team at Apple puts their efforts into the Apple TV.
They should have been working on this 3 years ago, they're a bit late to the game. Certainly they have the reach to make a dent, but they're way behind on this stuff. It's not going to be easy for them to get people to give up Netflix or Amazon Prime at this point (many people will have to make that choice instead of subscribing to everything).
I think you may have stumbled on to what they really should do. Offer fiber optic internet service!
The epicenter of a vast wasteland of innovation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_N._Minow
So, instead of one big cable bill, we're going have a dozen media subscriptions
that will end up costing a lot more than the single cable bill.
Brilliant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_N._Minow
So, instead of one big cable bill, we're going have a dozen media subscriptions
that will end up costing a lot more than the single cable bill.
Brilliant.
Original programming is good for folks like Netflix, but I'm not so sure about Apple. They should probably stick to their core constituencies.
I think Apple is still barking up the wrong tree with a TV "bundle." I, like many others, cut the damn cord because I was tired of wasting money on "100 channels of crap." I want to individually pick only the networks I want to watch. End of story.
I think Apple is still barking up the wrong tree with a TV "bundle." I, like many others, cut the damn cord because I was tired of wasting money on "100 channels of crap." I want to individually pick only the networks I want to watch. End of story.
Yeah the team that works on Apple TV is venturing way out of their field by working on the future of Apple TV.
Here's the thing. Apple now has over 1 billion active devices. I'm not sure how many active iTunes accounts that is but its for sure hundreds of millions. It makes sense for Apple to be thinking how they can monetize this user base (and hopefully keep them as Apple customers), especially if hardware upgrade cycles are getting longer. I might not be buying Apple devices as often but I'm still giving them money for other things like Apple Music, subscription TV service, etc. and I'm sure Wall Street would like it because it's a more predictable revenue stream. Honestly I'd love it if Apple turned their devices into a subscription service similar to the iPhone upgrade program. I'd totally pay a monthly fee to "rent" my devices (with the option to own outright) and get a new one every year or two.
well, that's very progressive of you
