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Apple Wants to Draw Subscribers to Apple TV+ With More Feature Films
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When we first got the Apple TV hardware, it wasn't quite what I expected. I think they intentionally blurred the distinction between Apple TV (hardware) the TV app, and Apple TV+. I don't like that. I prefer to think in terms of "Apple TV" only, and I definitely prefer to pay only one provider a simple fixed monthly subscription.
After a while I've come to appreciate what the device really does for us. It communicates well with all of our devices and appliances throughout our home, and we're not even what I'd consider a modern "smart home", but it's become a hub of sorts anyway. Voice control, short cuts, automation, controlling of other devices, I don't know all the details for how all that magic works, but it does and does it really really well.
Anyhow, it took a little while for us to discover various apps. For example, for well over a decade we've built a personal media library of iTunes purchases, shows, movies, and music, and thousands upon thousands of family videos. Media of our entire lives archived on a NAS, birthday parties, our children growing up, grandparents, vacations, etc. All of that stuff is a click or even a voice command away, and just wonderful. I've built HTPCs before, tried a variety of technologies, and never came close to such a seamless simple interface.
Where things turn sour for me is through the alternate streaming "apps" that aren't really apps in my opinion. They're just advertisement banners and icons for launching 3rd party services. I never realized that in other countries these launchers might not work. I can imagine that is very frustrating. However, they all work here. The problem is I'm not willing to pay for access to quite often just one more show or movie, which is exclusively behind yet another subscription. Plus, we'd likely end up paying many many times over and over for just that one show and might forget. Just a waste of money. I just want one quality provider and I think Apple is on track, planning, to deliver. If I'm right, and they do, I can't imagine why people would want the hassle and the bills of anything more. I added it up one evening. Many of these alternate streaming apps had one to two highly rated, quality shows. Those were their only hooks. When I summed it all up, a person would be paying well over $200 per month. Ridiculous.
Plus, I don't have time to really dig through a variety of platforms or apps to hopefully find something of quality. I'd rather have access to my decades of personally curated content and a trusted source like Apple focusing on producing and delivering quality content.
The one other provider we subscribe to is about to lose us. I've become very disenchanted by Netflix's obvious transition to quantity over quality. There'll be a tipping point when Apple is delivering enough quality content that I'll finally just drop Netflix. So, I'm pretty excited about this announcement.
I won’t renew my free year. Not enough content. And I don’t mean exclusive content, I mean a solid catalogue of classic movies and series just like Amazon and what Netflix used to be.
Apple must be making a huge loss on Apple TV. They continue to pour money into Tim Cook’s vanity project but cancel the HomePod because of poor sales.
I'm so sorry that Apple TV+ is not the CBS primetime lineup.
How does a company grow into the size of Apple with a market cap of over $2 trillion if it's lead by and has working for it a bunch of dumb people? 🤔
I agree. Look what Amazon are doing with NFL Thursday Night Football. In the U.K. they have secured rights to broadcast several English Premier League games throughout the season. It’s the main reason I keep my Prime Video subscription.Stupid idea !
They should focus on Live Sports, first at the local level !
E.g., Little League Baseball & Softball !
Tim Cook is either NOT a very smart man, OR simply has NO smart men OR women around him !
Why would AAPL want to compete Head On with others who are already entrenched in a certain market, & Apple is way behind with little to NO chance to even catch up ?
The ONLY reason I can think of is they want to continue to get the stock price expansion of Netflix without actually having to deliver !
It's called "string them along" ... OR more precisely, Smoke & Mirrors & a Dog & Pony Show, Tim's specialty
I agree. I enjoyed Tom Hanks' Greyhound and shows like For All Mankind and others. It is still relatively new, so if their focus is building their library, I'm curious as to what and where their platform is headed. If their content becomes too political and focuses too much on social issues, I would lose interest. I get that those are important issues, but when I want to watch shows, I wanna be entertained and enjoy a good show or movie. If I wanted to keep up with social and political issues, I can look to other medium to do that.
Because it was reborn and set on its current trajectory a long time ago by smart people including Steve Jobs and Jonny Ive. The iPhone is a steamroller that nobody can stop or mess up. The only success Tim Cook has had in 10 years is the Watch.
Succession is incredible, as well well that won the grammy for best TV drama last year.
last nite I started watching "perry mason again the first episode had too much info i realized.
i will check out Harley Quinn, my old friend wrote for that character in the 1990s.
HBO is very entettining!
They were trying to being involved in all aspects of entertainment for their community but in the film/video content provider the competition is intense
- HBO has its staple of a lot of film content even with the box-office release at the same time available on HBO.
- Netflix just won the Sony deal with content after release windows and access to Sony Film Vault.
- Disney in late 2020 thru 2021 has shown it can produce multiple limited series to attract even more subscribers.
- Amazon offers a lot of original series and movie content on it own.
Disney+ gets political too… "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" is very political, especially in its latest episode.
We’ve officially come full circle, folks
Thanks. Seriously, I don't know why more people aren't talking about the animated "Harley Quinn" show. It was my daily 30 minute COVID-19 pick me up. There are times I literally busted out laughing. And, they managed to sneak a very good story in there amongst the belly laughs. Enjoy.
A few more British themed shows would be good to see. Britain's top psychic and medium died recently, his name was Derech Acorah. He was loved, revered and worshipped by millions over here. Critics were less kind, but even so, just an idea anyway. Love and light to you all.
They do from HBO side, but the amount of films HBO Max displays in their GUI has eclipsed that. You have WB, DC, TSM, HBO film archives online. Funny enough Tubi has a lot more content of specific genres then HBO Max, such as westerns, martial arts, classics, maybe some other categories.
the liberal agenda stuff is gone!
i just launched the tv on safari and there was no Oprah promotions in my face.
is the site working?
anyways
i see spacemen, blue haired chick, something about a cherry and snoopy
there are a couple fighting mosquitoes and Ian McGregor staring at elephant balls!
i should watch the tv more often!
i just launched the tv on safari and there was no Oprah promotions in my face.
is the site working?
anyways
i see spacemen, blue haired chick, something about a cherry and snoopy
there are a couple fighting mosquitoes and Ian McGregor staring at elephant balls!
i should watch the tv more often!
If Tim Cook is such a terrible CEO as you seem to suggest, then Apple would not be doing as well as it is. A bad CEO can do harm and stop a company from succeeding and growing. Just look at Microsoft and Steve Ballmer. Microsoft's stock price was flat for practically his entire tenure. Under Tim Cook, Apple went from a $400 billion company to a $2+ trillion company.
You seem to also forget that Tim Cook was Steve Jobs' right-hand man when he was Apple's Chief Operating Officer. Are you telling me Steve Jobs and the board of directors made a bad decision in making Cook CEO?
Apple Watch, AirPods, and Apple's App store and services.
While I agree he's no Steve Jobs (i.e. imaginative), he's still done a heck of a job leading Apple.
This is what I've said months ago! movies like palmer cost 7 million, Hala 5 million, The banker cost apple 11 million. Those cheap movies can be 10 small movies and 2 big-budget films each year. It would be easy since they're so inexpensive to make costing as small as 50 million for 10 low-budget films.
Apple has heard the complaints about that and the latest TV App on iDevices has a separate tab dedicated to the ATV+ content.
How can you justify giving Tim Cook credit for the App Store that came out with the iPhone 3g?