I am so glad Apple is doing what it finally loves. Making those phones and computers to get to this place must've been hell.
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Apple Orders Drama Series 'Swagger' Based on Early Life of NBA All-Star Kevin Durant
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Can’t think of a single thing in Apple’s TV programming pipeline that sounds remotely interesting. I’ve never heard of Kevin Durant, and I’m from the States. That said, I could care less about sports generally, let alone some random basketball player.
We love the NBA and KD here in Japan.
Even though you personally might not know "who the hell he is," please don't lump us in with the uninformed. The world is a big place filled with lots of knowledgable people.
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I really don't feel like spending my time defending a league who doesn't pay me. Just trying to correct misinformation. It's fine if you don't watch basketball or the NBA, but you're still wrong to say it doesn't have a large global presence
Just let me stream everything iTunes has to offer, music and movies for one reasonable price.
Forget this original content nonsense. None of it sounds appealing.
Forget this original content nonsense. None of it sounds appealing.
Ask a german if they know Dirk Nowitzki and they will say yes. But ask a german if they know the name of his team or his city. I can tell you the answer. Oh and I didn't know you guys thought he was that special. Wow.
So it's not that nobody cares. Basketball fans care. And I even guess in Spain, Latvia or Greece where they value basketball more than here maybe even normal everyday people may name you two or three NBA players cause they read the sports pages of the newspapers. But really thinking normal everyday people outside of the US really care or know about the NBA is very self-opinionated.
Oh and I don't know the popularity of basketball vs football in the US but over here at least the NFL is shown on free TV.
Basketball is not a number one sport in any country in Europe. In a few countries it's in the top 3, in most it's even less. So imagine a normal daily newspaper having 4 or maybe even 6 pages of sports and 90% of them covered by soccer, how much press is that countrys own basketball league getting and how much of that is left for the NBA?
My God the whining. This place is really becoming toxic. I mean, > 80% of Netflix production I am not interested in it, and neither are any of the Apple haters, yet I subscribe to Netflix for the rest and I don't bother to comment anytime they produce something I am no interested in, exactly the same thing all the Apple haters do. Yet they need to to start with the usual whining even on something meaningless like this.
Fair enough.
Didn't know that about the NFL, that's pretty cool. It'll always be king in the US. Even with all the problems they've been having the ratings are still killing every other sport
Agreed. Soccer, which I detest, is insanely popular globally. Basketball, NBA? No.
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I think the idea is that Apple are trying to promote the idea that you can get to the top wherever and whoever you are?
No. It really isn't. Basketball is a dim comparison to other sports like Football (not the American variety), Tennis, Athletics, Rugby, etc. Those are truly global sports.
In fact, most sports considered to be American, like Baseball, American Football, Nascar/Indy-car are not at all popular outside of the US of A, or at least not as popular as they are in the US.
Live in a few countries all over the world as I have and that soon becomes apparent.
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Sounds like Apple is gearing up to rival Blockbuster.
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Anyone else tired about the whining about whining? Really getting out of control lately.
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Anyone else tired about the whining about whining? Really getting out of control lately.
Hard to believe with all their cash and access to talent that they can’t come up with some great entertainment. They are loosing their way.
I hadn’t watched basketball since the 90s, Jordan days so I tried watching the playoffs this last year. Unbelievable! I have never watched such a mess of a sport. No defense, chucking up threes constantly, no plays setup. I felt sorry for the whole thing. If that’s considered a good sport I don’t know what to really think. Sad.
Well, I am very sorry if, in the context of a discussion forum, I find unsubstantiated and petty whining annoying and meaningless. After all, one of the first rule to have a healthy life is to focus on things one like and not obsess about things he doesn't like and have no control on.
You are right. It's hard to let go of a relationship with Apple that in some cases (my case) goes back almost 40 years. Apple used to have a singular obsessed vision to make insanely great products that changed living in a very real way. That is all gone, and greenlighting a TV series about a vapid basketball star is just the latest example. Apple shouldn't even be in this business. But that's Apple today and you're right, we should move on from the scorned phase.
Only reason it's worthy of comment is that Apple is late to the steaming television show game. Being late to it isn't a problem in and of itself. Apple often waits before entering a given market. But traditionally, Apple's strength has been entering with something superior or unique that stands out. (People had MP3 players before the iPod, but nothing that worked as smoothly or with the kind of integration it offered.)
What many of us disapprove of is how Apple is trying to "break through" the glut of streaming TV subscription options with original programming that's so "bleah".
What many of us disapprove of is how Apple is trying to "break through" the glut of streaming TV subscription options with original programming that's so "bleah".
I have to ask. What's the point of subscribing to a streaming service that is not releasing software for as many possible devices as possible? It's dumb to buy into a streaming service in a "walled garden." This has failure written all over it, and is one of many things that will lead to Apple fumbling over in the near term.