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Apple Shares Trailer for Upcoming Apple TV+ Show 'Amazing Stories' Coming March 6 [Updated]
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They must have had this in the can for a while. One of the show’s stars - Robert Foster - died back in October of last year. Can’t wait to see this just because I admired him so much.
Same here, if I was to use one word to describe the service, it is...barren.
There is just not enough content to justify regularly paying a subscription. At the moment it seems an indulgence for an executive at shareholder expense. They better get their arses out in the next six months with a lot of new content. Or buy it in. Because it isn’t worth $4.99 a month when there are lot of other streaming products out there with a lot more content, and people in the real world have to make choices of which ones they buy. Unlike Apple execs, they can’t buy all of them.
And not only a lot more content. the content needs to be the kind of stuff a lot of people are prepared to pay for. At the moment a lot of the shows seem Very Public Television, and you can get that free. It needs a lot more of the kind of stuff that people are prepared to pay to go to the cinema to watch, a lot more of the types of series people are prepared to buy in box sets.
I know that Apple wants this to be quality, so it doesn’t need to employ Adam Sandler. But it does need to be more appealing to people who want a lot more escapism than subjects Apple executives like to discuss at their San Francisco dinner parties.
...yes, but year 1 is going to pull in viewers by handing out free subscriptions with Apple hardware, and year 2 is going to funded by people not getting round to cancelling those subscriptions. By that time, ATV+ will have 2 years worth of original content. Meanwhile every major studio will have started their own streaming service and clawed back their back-catalogue from Netflix and Amazon, and hoping that we'll all be resigned to subscribing to half-a-dozen $5/mo channels just like with cable.
Looks very child oriented, and nothing at all like Black Mirror. Still, there's a certain Spielberg feel to it, even the music feels like it's been lifted straight out of a Spielberg movie from the 80s.
Haven't seen Amazing Stories before so this I also don't care to watch.
Was hoping is was about a highrise building.
Apple,, you talentlessmonkies monkeys. Give us something better than this to subscribe to. Geez.
What's next? A 100 episode series about two men in San Francisco picking flowers and stubbing their toes each episode?!
Was hoping is was about a highrise building.
Apple,, you talentless
What's next? A 100 episode series about two men in San Francisco picking flowers and stubbing their toes each episode?!
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So we can expect a scene by scene remake of the original series, all over again with no new content and expect that everyone has forgotten the original? Nothing is ever new from Hollywood.
I can’t imagine he’s doing it for the money. He’s worth upwards of $4 billion.
So I’m not being facetious, I’m genuinely baffled as to what the business sense was behind AppleTV. I mean, the smaller streaming services (ie individual networks) are making marginal profits, and the big streamers are struggling to make profits that are membership driven and not just investor driven - and throwing massive amounts of cash at content just to keep people interested.
So you’ve got this fairly crowded market that Apple wades into with what could be described, at best, as a decent collection of offerings with very little in the way of must-see.
Is this like an ecosystem thing?
So you’ve got this fairly crowded market that Apple wades into with what could be described, at best, as a decent collection of offerings with very little in the way of must-see.
Is this like an ecosystem thing?
People will complain about literally anything. Apple could give you a free house and you would find some way to spin it negatively, because Apple.
Your post is nonsense. "talentless monkies"? What does that even mean?
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Where did you even pull that idea from? Who said this was a remake? It's inspired by the original series and will tell new stories, not remake them.
Apple is going to need to share a lot more than this in the next few months if they want any hope of getting people to pay the monthly price once their free trials run out.
Not a chance I would be paying a fiver per month for the guff that is on there at the moment.
Not a chance I would be paying a fiver per month for the guff that is on there at the moment.
It’s going to depend on the customer. To some, the $49.99 annual cost is less than they’d blow for them and their spouse to go see just a single movie, with popcorn and a coke.
It’s like getting 364 days of free entertainment lol.
There's some great content on Apple TV+ but it's really clunky in the way it mixes the original content (which is included), third party content which you have access to (if you have Amazon Prime for example) and stuff which is chargeable on top. I don't yet know if I will continue to subscribe beyond my free year... it sort of depends on how my household comes to rely on Disney+
The hope is that given Apple and Disney's close relationships over the years that they are somehow combined by the time next year comes around. At the moment we are reaching a sort of streaming fatigue with so many services, Amazon, Netflix, Disney, Hulu, Apple, HBO, Peacock, Britbox etc etc. There's too many and it's not sustainable. At some point, some of these services are going to have to get gobbled up and merged together.
The hope is that given Apple and Disney's close relationships over the years that they are somehow combined by the time next year comes around. At the moment we are reaching a sort of streaming fatigue with so many services, Amazon, Netflix, Disney, Hulu, Apple, HBO, Peacock, Britbox etc etc. There's too many and it's not sustainable. At some point, some of these services are going to have to get gobbled up and merged together.
