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Apple TV Could Gain Major Warner Bros. Titles via Acquisition
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Apple's in a different boat than traditional media companies who offer streaming services. TV+ is one part of their larger services portfolio, an area that makes up an increasingly large part of Apple's revenue ($96 billion for FY 2024).
Most analysts believe TV+ actually loses Apple money, but it helps add value to Apple One subscription bundles with services that are quite profitable, like iCloud and Music. And those bundles lock users into Apple's ecosystem and in turn will drive hardware sales.
So Apple doesn't need to make money or recoup its costs on TV+ itself, it can instead treat it as a value add to drive more profitable Apple One bundle subscriptions and hardware sales. That changes the economics considerably compared to making the streaming service on its own profitable.
Discovery is the absolute worst dreck on cable. A very long time ago it was actually really good. With legitimate documentarles. But since at least the the mid 2000s it's just been reality TV garbage and anti-science fake documentaries like 'Mermaid:body found".
I know it's been said once or twice before. But Steve Jobs wouldn't recognize this version of Apple.
I know it's been said once or twice before. But Steve Jobs wouldn't recognize this version of Apple.
I agree and I think everyone has been frog boiled over time to not realize it.
Well, at least this will help with complaints that Apple TV does not have a wide variety of content.
Apple was not interested in Paramount because they would have to buy CBS, and that includes CBS News and CBS Sports, something that Apple likely does not want.
I see no one defending it but the posters who harp on it in every thread to do with streaming are just repeating the same old meme. Just stay on topic is all.
lol 50 plus billion? If apple does this watch their stock plummet. Thats crazy. There’s a reason wb is desperately looking to be bought. Ask AT&T how it went. They spent nearly 100 billion on them. This is stupid talk. Apple isn’t doing this. That’s not how Apple manages its business.
Steve Jobs was a well respected win-win negotiator If he was alive he'd solve the streaming crisis in a heartbeat and put them all under one roof like he did to the music industry with iTunes.
I don't know. On one side I like the competition that forces all streamers to have new shows and series, more or less original. On the other side I have to have to pay for 4 streaming services to follow the series that we like.
While I doubt Apple would ever want all that Warner Bros. Discovery has to offer (especially their cable channel assets), I could see this as a move to help their new business partner, Comcast, easily swoop in and buy Warner Bros. out from Paramount Skydance. Apple could appeal that they will buy a back catalog of shows at a well above average price in return for Comcast being able to buy Warner Bros./HBO at a more fair and manageable price, albeit without Discovery and all the cable channels, except for possibly TNT and TBS (due to their sports portfolios). Now who would want to buy the rest, who knows, but maybe this would be the icing on the cake for Warner Brow. Discovery to finally sell. I mean, Apple does have the magic touch when it comes to persuasion.
Yawn, it’s a pump and dump rumor. Same as it was Paramount which would have been a far easier acquisition, but hey at least I finally got out for a good some from both Para and WBD.
If they do split up the company, I could see Apple taking HBO and some WB studios assets and maybe some of their catalog. I see DC, the remaining WB assets, and CNN going to Amazon. I see Netflix taking all the Discovery content and Cartoon Network.
Those of you who say Apple should have bought Paramount, I ask why??? I mean, what did Paramount have to offer that Warner Bros. doesn’t? Warner Bros. has HBO and DC Studios as well as, Looney Toons and all their other cartoon franchises, not to mention all their award winning classic timeless movies. I just don’t get what Discovery did to such a well respected brand and why it was allowed. With Apple at the helm, things would be so much better. Maybe they would go in with their new business partner, Comcast, to make something happen. But here is something I feel is overlooked with all this, why is Comcast even showing any interested in Warner Bros. Discovery at all when they are struggling and as such, are in the process of separating their cable assets (and except Bravo and their sports networks) from NBCUniversal? Maybe it has something to do with their partnership with Apple (you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours). If both companies would go in on a deal, then it might actually be worth it. Apple gets what they want and Comcast gets what they want, which could translate to a boost in both of their sports offerings and Apple finally having a studio for their own in-house movies and shows.
Paramount has a deep catalogue and a first class studio. AND, it was much less expensive. Apple could have bought it cheap and sold off the broadcast license.
I doubt Apple would give up DC, but then again, I could see Amazon trying to make some sort of a deal with Apple for DC, whether that is a complete buy out of DC or simply just to have a good stake in DC. Now then, if Amazon would agree to take the cable assets off their hands (except for HBO) for DC, I could then see Apple possibly budging, but then they would have to offer more than just that to make a deal. Honestly, I doubt either Amazon or Apple would want any of their cable assets other than HBO, so maybe it would all come down to sports. I mean, TNT and TBS do have a lot of sports offerings that could make buying the cable channel assets worth it to someone like Amazon.
If warner sells the movie section of the business they will probably sell DC too. Makes no sense to sell Warner Bros and get out of the movies business but keeping DC Studios. I think Discovery wants to keep the trash TV portion of the business but if they want to sell everything Netflix will probably buy the reality tv shows.
Rumors of Apple buying a studio and/or film/show assets have been around for many years now, nothing has ever happened.
The whole streaming world is in "what do I want to be when I grow up" mode, Hollywood is struggling big time, I seriously doubt Apple will step in and set I course if change in that industry ...
The whole streaming world is in "what do I want to be when I grow up" mode, Hollywood is struggling big time, I seriously doubt Apple will step in and set I course if change in that industry ...
