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Apple Reportedly Exploring Producing Original TV Shows
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I don't have to do anything. If people don't understand the relationship between those three companies, that's not my problem. Anyone who has been following Apple for a good length of time should be able to figure it out. It's not difficult.
I'm perfectly aware!
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Apple will require viewers to scroll a long list of legalese, then click the agree button prior to starting each original TV show.
We had s chance at having one unified service for streaming. Instead what we got was a handful of different companies constantly changing their lineup, not too much unlike what we have with cable now, except at least you're streaming it and, for the most part, living without ads (I'm glaring at you, Hulu).
I guess having one unified place where I can search for virtually any movie or show is too much to ask. I need to pay this guy $8, that guy $12, this other guy $25, etc. fooey
I guess having one unified place where I can search for virtually any movie or show is too much to ask. I need to pay this guy $8, that guy $12, this other guy $25, etc. fooey
Apple is already enormous. But we should prepare ourselves for a future that looks very different to now. I believe in the next 20 years, the possibility is there for Apple to become a production studio, a car manufacturer and a bank. It's possible that one day Apple could provide a huge fraction of the services in your life - whether that's a good thing or not. However, most of all, I really I hope they don't lose track of their original mission and aim.
Each of these companies have multiple major outages every year but you have to really search to find out about them.
You'd think Apple fails at services when these companies are worse. http://www.enterprisetech.com/2015/02/20/google-outage-traced-to-network-glitch/ This article mentions some from this year.
Judging from the responses to your post no-one has been here long enough to figure out your post. So, for the other people and me that don't understand what you were saying, can you explain it? Are you talking about absolute size? If so what? Revenue, profit? Are you talking about content production?
Not so long ago Apple produced computers, phones, tablets, Apple TV and dabbled in cloud services. iTunes Store was a massive hit, and the iTunes Festival was a part of it. You could explain pretty easily to a bystander what Apple does.
Nowadays, Apple produces music videos, watches, streaming services, a radio station, payment services and is rumoured to be going into making cars, the game market, military wearables, replacing cable TV and now also producing audiovisual content. iMac was a revolution: no computer looked like that. iPhone was a revolution: nobody has ever made a keyboard-less phone so well before. iTunes Store was a revolution: it changed the way people purchase music forever. iPad was a revolution: it showed the world that they do, after all, want a tablet.
Apple Music, music video production, a smartwatch, a radio station are all snazzy and well, but it's been all done before. Apple Watch smashed the competition, but it's still a niche product as of 2015. Beats 1 didn't smash anything, and neither did Apple Music judging by the numbers we have so far. The idea of Apple making videos for Drake and M.I.A. is at best bizarre. And now TV shows? I am not going to join Netflix, HBO, Apple TV and Amazon Prime all at once to watch their exclusives. I don't want to do illegal stuff, but I just can't afford all those (and possibly more in the future). And you just know that Apple's service will be the most expensive and designed by the same people as Apple Music, thus your TV will greet you with a glowing white screen with small thumbnail pictures and tiny gray text. Dear Apple, please focus on SOMETHING. I know Google said it's boring but could you fix Apple Music first? Just a bit, so it doesn't scramble libraries and delete music from phones whenever it feels like it?
However, if "Game of Phones", "Craig Federighi's Comedy Hour" and "The Sam Sung Chronicles" happen, I am going to subscribe to Apple TV's free three month trial, I would love to see those! So if those are the plans for Apple TV, bring it on by all means.
(How high is Netflix valued? Could Apple just buy Netflix, then make the interface all white with illegible text and replace your legally bought DVDs with copies of the "Steve Jobs" movie? That could work.)
Edit: I forgot to mention that I don't think Apple will list the losses Apple Music makes them in yearly earnings, which is a shame because I'd love to know.
Nowadays, Apple produces music videos, watches, streaming services, a radio station, payment services and is rumoured to be going into making cars, the game market, military wearables, replacing cable TV and now also producing audiovisual content. iMac was a revolution: no computer looked like that. iPhone was a revolution: nobody has ever made a keyboard-less phone so well before. iTunes Store was a revolution: it changed the way people purchase music forever. iPad was a revolution: it showed the world that they do, after all, want a tablet.
Apple Music, music video production, a smartwatch, a radio station are all snazzy and well, but it's been all done before. Apple Watch smashed the competition, but it's still a niche product as of 2015. Beats 1 didn't smash anything, and neither did Apple Music judging by the numbers we have so far. The idea of Apple making videos for Drake and M.I.A. is at best bizarre. And now TV shows? I am not going to join Netflix, HBO, Apple TV and Amazon Prime all at once to watch their exclusives. I don't want to do illegal stuff, but I just can't afford all those (and possibly more in the future). And you just know that Apple's service will be the most expensive and designed by the same people as Apple Music, thus your TV will greet you with a glowing white screen with small thumbnail pictures and tiny gray text. Dear Apple, please focus on SOMETHING. I know Google said it's boring but could you fix Apple Music first? Just a bit, so it doesn't scramble libraries and delete music from phones whenever it feels like it?
However, if "Game of Phones", "Craig Federighi's Comedy Hour" and "The Sam Sung Chronicles" happen, I am going to subscribe to Apple TV's free three month trial, I would love to see those! So if those are the plans for Apple TV, bring it on by all means.
(How high is Netflix valued? Could Apple just buy Netflix, then make the interface all white with illegible text and replace your legally bought DVDs with copies of the "Steve Jobs" movie? That could work.)
Edit: I forgot to mention that I don't think Apple will list the losses Apple Music makes them in yearly earnings, which is a shame because I'd love to know.
As long as its good!
I can only imagine Apple funding this not getting involved in the creative aspects.
I can only imagine Apple funding this not getting involved in the creative aspects.
If their mission is to dominate the world Apple technology... i think they are in the right track... But if their mission is to create a desktop computers... Well.. they had lost their way since iPod.
I would really like to know what their mission statement is these days. At least we know what Ive's mission statement is.
Great idea and it's similar to Sony producing content for all the media devices it produces ( or once produced...)
I'm loving Beats 1 I really am so they have proven they can produce content even if it's compiling playlists at this stage.
I'm loving Beats 1 I really am so they have proven they can produce content even if it's compiling playlists at this stage.
Ps next logical step to owning the entire Eco system- make the media played on iPhones and Apple TV
For about 5% of their cash holdings which is about 10 billion dollars, Apple in just 1 year can produce
20 mega movies each comparable in bugdet and scale with Terminator 2 (2.5 billion dollars),
about 40 romantic movies, kid movies and family movies (3 billion dollars);
10 TV series (war, adventure) of 10 episodes each (all in all for 1.5 billion dollar),
10 TV Science fiction series 10 episode each (1 billion dollars)
10 adventure and crime series 10 series each (1 billion dollars)
and still will be left with change of 1 billion dollars maybe to produce about 20 independent shows.
And Apple will be in black, and will get profit of about 25% on all of them on average, including flops.
If Apple hires best directors and stars, Apple will have margins of about 40%, slightly higher or comparable with margins they have on Macs and iPhones.
If they spend only 10% of their cash holding, they will wipe out entire Hollywood.
If they make them AppleTV exclusive, they will gradually suffocate Netflix and others (not that they have such intent, it will be just result of competition);
20 mega movies each comparable in bugdet and scale with Terminator 2 (2.5 billion dollars),
about 40 romantic movies, kid movies and family movies (3 billion dollars);
10 TV series (war, adventure) of 10 episodes each (all in all for 1.5 billion dollar),
10 TV Science fiction series 10 episode each (1 billion dollars)
10 adventure and crime series 10 series each (1 billion dollars)
and still will be left with change of 1 billion dollars maybe to produce about 20 independent shows.
And Apple will be in black, and will get profit of about 25% on all of them on average, including flops.
If Apple hires best directors and stars, Apple will have margins of about 40%, slightly higher or comparable with margins they have on Macs and iPhones.
If they spend only 10% of their cash holding, they will wipe out entire Hollywood.
If they make them AppleTV exclusive, they will gradually suffocate Netflix and others (not that they have such intent, it will be just result of competition);
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What Apple should do with music and movies is what they did with apps:
Invite and facilitate for independent producers to sell their music and movies.
The timing would be perfect: the big production companies do not want to realize the terms of the new times of entertainment on demand, and the technology to produce quality music and movies is at everyones hands, or at least in the hands of smaller independent production studios.
Give us the true free market! Not in terms of money, but in terms of freedom for everyone not only o consume but also provide! And no, youtube is not quality enough for that!!
Invite and facilitate for independent producers to sell their music and movies.
The timing would be perfect: the big production companies do not want to realize the terms of the new times of entertainment on demand, and the technology to produce quality music and movies is at everyones hands, or at least in the hands of smaller independent production studios.
Give us the true free market! Not in terms of money, but in terms of freedom for everyone not only o consume but also provide! And no, youtube is not quality enough for that!!
Yes please don't go with those top gear tonks. Do they not realise Clarkson was fired for fighting a producer, Eddy Cue will be next...
Kim Kardashian makes a lot of money too, doesn't mean she's doing anything 'good, great'
This. Honestly, Apple is pretty conservative as far as how they operate so a show that they make won't be nearly as complete as say Game of Thrones or Sons of Anarchy. I dunno about this. The tech world is so "monkey see, monkey do" these days. Whatever.
hmm, so the apple music business plan in tv....
which means they will buy some key players and let them do their thing.
which means they will buy some key players and let them do their thing.
Right but you can get it just about anywhere. Will people pay for exclusive content from Apple that is only on iTunes/TV?