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Apple Orders 'Home' Docuseries Featuring Extraordinary Houses

Naraxus said:
This is a complete joke. Watching a bunch of rich celebrities parade around their ostentatious & pretentious garbage. Sounds exactly like something Apple would produce honestly.
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Do tell where you saw this show.
 
Hmm.. No. Yet more TV reality trash.

There used to be a British TV show like this years ago. They would visit some famous person's house and nose about in it.

The thought of even considering signing up for Apple Music decreases..
 
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LOL...I think people need to wait and see what specific homes are featured on the show. I doubt it's going to be generic luxury boxes or hipster/flipster retreads. My own guess would be that it's a mix of historically important and/or very unusual homes. Some might be well known, some might not.
 
A 24 hour network dedicated to masturbating pot-bellied pigs might be more interesting.

How about more copycat shows...

Ice Road Dominoes Delivery
Forged In Aluminum
This House That Requires Remodeling Show
Celebrity Extended Family Swap
Aliens and STDs: The Real Dirty Secret
Everybody Has Slept With Raymond

Game Shows:

War (A classic twist on everyone's favorite card game)
Running With Scissors
How Long Is Your Finger?
Which Guy Will Die First?
Am I Dumber Than Tom's Cousin Randy?

Or some good ol' fashioned information shows:

Fun With Windows 3.1
HAM Radio House Party
Fortran For The Homemaker
Pottery For The Social Drinker
Pottery For The Casual Smoker
Pipe Cleaner Projects for the Prepubescent Teen
 
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Sounds like one big home kit ad

"And how do you control the lights in your pool?"

I've got this app on my iPhone X......"
 
I enjoyed "Grand Designs" quite a bit. Especially the episodes where they couldn't pull it off and hopelessly destroyed all their savings. Plus I liked everything London the best, because building there was the hardest. Some guys have been abso-fruit-ly insane with their tight budgets and achievements.

Would be nice to see an US counterpart.
 
Winni said:
A corporation with enough cash reserves to finance the global cancer research
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LOL dude, there is no cancer research. The little research that was needed is already long done. There's a public list by the WHO of cancerogenous substances and foods. The only question that remains is: "How can one eat an unlimited amount of class A cancerogoneous substances year-in year-out and still not develop cancer?" However, there is no answer to this question. Just don't eat / expose yourself to the stuff. And if you have cancer stop eating it / stop exposing yourself. If you're lucky you will go clear. That's the whole thing about cancer.
 
Winni said:
A corporation with enough cash reserves to finance the global cancer research - or finance the colonization of Mars - has absolutely no imagination to put its money to proper use. What happened to "here's to the crazy ones"?
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I wish I could like this comment 100 times.

Their content is beyond being utterly banal, it proves the adage that "money can't buy taste".
 
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adamjackson said:
The reason for Amazon, Netflix and Hulu's success is their channels are available on every platform. No matter what box you buy or smartTV, you can stream content from all of those places so long as you pay for it.

AppleMusic streaming is not available on Roku, Shield, Google Cast or Amazon Fire, right? Isn't that holding them back?
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Only if you consider around 40 million people and climbing steadily to be "held back." But more importantly, the devices you list are designed primarily for video, not music streaming. Apple Music can be streamed on the vast majority, like 99.9% of all devices in the world including your PC and Android devices.
 
adamjackson said:
The reason for Amazon, Netflix and Hulu's success is their channels are available on every platform. No matter what box you buy or smartTV, you can stream content from all of those places so long as you pay for it.

AppleMusic streaming is not available on Roku, Shield, Google Cast or Amazon Fire, right? Isn't that holding them back?
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That’s part of it. The major part, however, is that they’re making excellent, entertaining, original, and exclusive content. The original content Apple is putting out is boring and terrible in contrast.
 
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QuarterSwede said:
That’s part of it. The major part, however, is that they’re making excellent, entertaining, original, and exclusive content. The original content Apple is putting out is boring and terrible in contrast.
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Again, you're comparing Apple to oranges. Those are video streaming services, and in some cases simply hardware devices, e.g., Roku, which should be compared against the Apple TV device. AppleMusic is a music streaming service. They are in midst of forming a video streaming service and have hired the folks to help create it, and have begun licensing programming. As, whatever they name their new service, starts to come together later in 2018 and beyond, then it will make sense to compare it with Amazon Prime, Hulu, Netflix, etc.
 
TheColtr said:
This sounds like something I’ll watch. I’ve always loved admiring the architecture of beautiful houses. I know it sounds silly, but I have always loved design
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If it was insightful or interesting then I would watch it, but as with the past Apple exclusives, this is likely to be "for the masses" crap...
 
gnipgnop said:
LOL...I think people need to wait and see what specific homes are featured on the show. I doubt it's going to be generic luxury boxes or hipster/flipster retreads. My own guess would be that it's a mix of historically important and/or very unusual homes. Some might be well known, some might not.
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I think you are on the wrong site. Your post is too thoughtful and not revealing of some deep insecurities that cause you to be resentful towards a company to the degree you come on a site for enthusiasts and hate on that company.
 
truthertech said:
Only if you consider around 40 million people and climbing steadily to be "held back." But more importantly, the devices you list are designed primarily for video, not music streaming. Apple Music can be streamed on the vast majority, like 99.9% of all devices in the world including your PC and Android devices.
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Right but this is video. If Apple is going to have 30 original shows only showing on Apple devices (and Android phones), that seems like a missed opportunity.
 
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Gorms said:
Sounds a lot more like Grand Designs, a show over in the UK, than MTV Cribs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Designs
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This was exactly my thought. I really enjoy Grand Designs, which is not about showcasing obnoxious rich mansions, but shows the building of fascinatingly and uniquely designed buildings created by all sorts of fascinating characters. If Apple’s programme takes this approach it might be about Apple Park style creations (not necessarily on that scale of course!). I’d be interested to hear more about it.
 
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truthertech said:
Again, you're comparing Apple to oranges. Those are video streaming services, and in some cases simply hardware devices, e.g., Roku, which should be compared against the Apple TV device. AppleMusic is a music streaming service. They are in midst of forming a video streaming service and have hired the folks to help create it, and have begun licensing programming. As, whatever they name their new service, starts to come together later in 2018 and beyond, then it will make sense to compare it with Amazon Prime, Hulu, Netflix, etc.
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No. This article is specifically about a tv show. It doesn't matter if Apple puts it under the Apple Music umbrella for now, it's not music.
 
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Is Jony responsible for choosing their shows now, too? Sounds like a Jony choice.
 
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