It is the only service that's cross plattform, yes, but it shows that Apple is willed to open it's services if necessary.
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Apple Plans to Launch Original TV Shows Comparable to 'Westworld' and 'Stranger Things' By End of 2017
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Really? I'm an Apple Music user and I'm very happy with it, how is Spotify any better?
Well, discover weekly is absolutely amazing. It's always spot on for me. Giving me a list of new songs to listen to and I typically add 3-4 songs per week to playlists of mine. They have tons of remixes of song which I have yet to find on Apple Music or Amazon Music Unlimited. And also, the navigation is dead simple. I tried Apple Music when it first came out, that was a no go, and then after the re-design, still doesn't make sense. The fact that apple claims to make things "just work" and "dead simple" does not apply to the Apple Music app. And lets not even get into how they screwed up local/purchased music libraries.
I've lost a lot of faith in them in doing things right and being "seamless". It often ends up with wasting a weekend to sort things out.
We must be using something different, I listen to a lot more new music since having the Apple Music subscription. I use the For You section which gives very accurate playlists that I might be interested in. Also the browse section which is clearly labelled with tabs like new music, curated playlists and so on, it's pretty simple to use in my view. It seems pretty "seamless" as you put it, at least that's my experience, obviously I can't speak for everyone only myself.
How would Apple buy an American company when they keep most of their money outside the United States to avoid paying taxes?
Lol, is this Apple's new methodology, statements about making something better, always coming in the future, copying the cool things that other companies have already offered?
Apple is a LOT of talk lately. I hope they deliver on the many, many promises they have been making in the last few years; I mean like a psychic or futurist eventually if you make enough predictions some will come true. But this is getting tiresome to hear about what Apple could possibly due and hints about great things supposedly in the works and coming while those things are already realities. Tim Cook said at the beginning of 2016 that Apple had many great things planned for that year....its 2017 now.
Apple has the money to make quality original programming and has had, for years now, one of the best multimedia platforms available, it is just dissapointing that it ALWAYS takes other companies to pioneer success first before Apple adopts and enters into those markets. Apple should have disrupted this industry with their first Apple TV, making original content or at least securing premium exclusives to drive an iTunes content subscription model 10 years ago. Instead they were too focused on whoring the platform to Big Telco trying to secure AppleTV as the box your cord or indebted servitude is connected to.
HBO demonstrated some of the best content you can get on cable, Netflix offered us a new future of high quality subscription based content, now Apple screams "Us Too, Us Too, we will do something great too like that, eventually, when we get around to it. We have nothing interesting to offer right now but in the future we will be awesome. Please don't forget about us."
Tim Cook = Trump, he only says he will make Apple great again, still no proof yet that it will happen.
Apple is a LOT of talk lately. I hope they deliver on the many, many promises they have been making in the last few years; I mean like a psychic or futurist eventually if you make enough predictions some will come true. But this is getting tiresome to hear about what Apple could possibly due and hints about great things supposedly in the works and coming while those things are already realities. Tim Cook said at the beginning of 2016 that Apple had many great things planned for that year....its 2017 now.
Apple has the money to make quality original programming and has had, for years now, one of the best multimedia platforms available, it is just dissapointing that it ALWAYS takes other companies to pioneer success first before Apple adopts and enters into those markets. Apple should have disrupted this industry with their first Apple TV, making original content or at least securing premium exclusives to drive an iTunes content subscription model 10 years ago. Instead they were too focused on whoring the platform to Big Telco trying to secure AppleTV as the box your cord or indebted servitude is connected to.
HBO demonstrated some of the best content you can get on cable, Netflix offered us a new future of high quality subscription based content, now Apple screams "Us Too, Us Too, we will do something great too like that, eventually, when we get around to it. We have nothing interesting to offer right now but in the future we will be awesome. Please don't forget about us."
Tim Cook = Trump, he only says he will make Apple great again, still no proof yet that it will happen.
Makes no sense to me. I'd think they would be working towards anTV service, similar to
From the rumors over the last couple of years it sounds like Apple has been trying to start it's own streaming cable/TV service, but haven't had any luck. It's complicated working with all the different broadcast and cable networks, and it's quickly becoming a crowded area, with new 'skinny bundles' coming out of the woodwork. At this point Apple would have trouble standing out so they might as well start creating their own content now and keep working on getting a cable/TV streaming service out the door. What Apple ultimately wants is to move hardware (in this case
TVs) and if they create content that people like and want to see people will buy TVs in order to see it.For everyone complaining that Apple should re-focus on MPs and MBPs, how long has it been since selling laptops and desktop has been the dominant source of Apple's revenue? Those days are long gone, and never coming back, because the customer buying habits have changed. Selling laptops and desktop is no longer the lucrative business it was 15yrs ago. The iPod and iPhone have been the big needle movers since then, but the iPod has gone away and the iPhone's growth is plateauing because the smart phone market is maturing. The iPad hasn't done gangbusters and neither has the Watch. So that leaves the
TV and... some amazing product deep inside Apple that hasn't seen the light of day yet?If Apple wants to change the
TV from a hobby to a major focus then creating exclusive content is something they have to do. It's just the nature of that particular beast.Again, How would Apple buy an American company when they keep most of their money outside the United States to avoid paying taxes?
Agreed!
But hopefully this isn't what Tim was referring to when he said Apple has a lot of new products in the pipeline... Stick with electronics Apple.
Why? If Apple will produce the new series then it's up to Apple to do whatever they want with it. I think it's the best opportunity to make solid good series and broadcast them using an app within Apple TV. If you can't or don't want to buy existing series make them yourself.
I think this is a good thing.
Except they wouldn't need to be fishing for additional reasons to stay in their ecosystem if everything worked like it was supposed to.
Are you saying the same about Amazon, Netflix, Android, Google - EVERYONE who advertises and adds new features to their ecosystems?