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Apple TV App Coming to PS4 and PS5
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More power to you that you can spend so much time watching mediocre content!
No 'cable' as you call it has ads, schedules, and channels. Netflix had the full range of content from old movies, TV shows, to newer stuff. Then it slowly lost content and now the same content it used to have is on a dozen services all wanting the same monthly sub with slightly more terrible UI/UX, and 'originals' that are uninteresting.
The best experience just now is to just buy the shows on iTunes and have everything in one clean UI.
It's cheaper and more bang for the buck to subscribe to a VOD service than to outright buy the shows on iTunes. The reason why this is not possible today is simply because of content rights. The studios are infamous for wanting control of them.
That's not how the economy works, nor capitalism. That's like suggesting Disney World needs to include IP from other companies or Burger King needs to include Mcdonalds recipes so that consumers get a more unified customer experience.
Netflix was able to have all the content because it was extremely early to the streaming party. Now everyone sees the success of the business model and wants a piece of the action, thus fragmentation. That happens in literally every single industry since time immemorial. This was happening (in different forms) in the 1600's with the tulip sale scam and the gold rush.
I'm not the target audience for many of these shows but I ended up enjoying the hell out of them nonetheless. Apple threw tons of money at incredibly talented productions and the end result speaks for itself. Nearly all TV+ shows are better than anything on any other streaming platform for 2020.
If by mediocre you mean some of the best content of 2020 on any television viewing platform, then you are correct.
Do please let me know when Netflix starts making their content available to other streaming companies.
In the meantime, can we stop pretending that Netflix ever had "all the content"? Or that replacing an ad-supported $100 cable package with one ad-free $10 streaming service is some soft of sustainable business model for film and TV production?
hahahaha I take it you have never seen what's on GamePass, have you? No way Apple is coming even close like that....AAA game makers are building for PC / Console X86 architecture, while only the Switch has an ARM chip. Porting AAA games to a potential new Apple TV is not gonna happen anytime soon. Mac has never been about serious gaming, doubt Apple TV or iPad will, despite processor power.
Thats why I said ‘esque. My point is that Apple is ramping it up and moving away from only casual or light games.
Also, I expect it to work with game streaming like Stadia. (But with a much better business model).
From Apple's perspective, there is a point, vertical integration like everyone else is doing. Now we have things like Disney+, great content on a third-rate platform (seriously why does spacebar not pause the show on there??). I hope that huge corps losing their focus and doing all these other projects will bite them in the long run, but so far it's not happened.
The market was satisfyingly specialized in 2010-2015-ish with content producers only making content and streaming providers only streaming it. I kept saying it wouldn't last.
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It's the other way around. Netflix didn't have a monopoly. We had a choice of streaming providers for any given show. Now Apple wants a "monopoly" on whatever exclusive shows they serve, same with Netflix and Amazon.
But I don't really care. There's still competition in who can make the best shows. And also I barely watch TV, haha.
Maybe. They also released AirPlay for third-party devices a couple of years ago. Personally I've never found the ATV very useful unless you just want to use the iTunes Store like my parents do, which is a legit use, but still kinda niche.
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Great points, I wouldn’t want the AppleTV to go anywhere. Maybe only a bit down in price.
There’s one thing that I can’t really fully point out but the PS4 makes me want to turn it off when going to watch passive content... I think it’s because there are menus that can come from the from the sides, the top, pressing the controller’s middle buttons and more menus and settings come out, arrangement of available things is ever horizontal, etc
The PS2 had two options at the starting screen, the PS3 XMB wasn’t that bad, the PS4 just continued the decline... for me at least, I never find back where things are every time I come back to it.
The AppleTV interface is miles more streamlined for watching movies. And although the PS4 controller is quite nice, the Siri Remote offers a similar experience overhaul... it only has six buttons in a way that feels uncrowded and out of which 2 of them are for volume control but it does get a lot of justifiable flak.