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Disney+ Reaches 50 Million Subscribers in Just Five Months
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I don't know if this is a fair comparison. Netflix was the real first streaming service and streaming online and through TVs is a standard now. So, adding another service (with a huge library) is easier for the consumer to sign up without much risk.
Taking in consideration Disney+'s start I doubt Apple will ever surpass them in paid subscribers.
It would be interesting to see actually how many paid subscribers Apple's services has right now, so not people that got the 1 year free option.
At the moment there isn't really anything for me on Disney+ or AppleTV+, I am sticking with Netflix / Amazon Prime / NowTV (UK app for entertainment and movies) until they improve, which I suspect they both will. Once tehy do it will be a harder choice as I don't really want to subscribe to all 5 of them!
TV+ was intended to solve the problem of content in the Apple TV being fragmented by apps. For example, you had to go into separate apps to watch different shows (eg: HBO to watch game of thrones, Prime to watch Picard, Disney+ to watch Mandalorian). So Apple came up with the TV app as a central landing page to aggregate all these shows together so that views could access them all in one app.
However, the problem then came in that the various content streaming companies had no incentive to integrate with TV+ and let their content be muddled with those of other companies. Smaller players had less to lose, but larger, more established names like Netflix had no reason to.
So to solve this problem, Apple need to give users a reason to active visit the TV app (which would in turn incentivise these companies to support said app).
Thus, TV+ (the Apple streaming service) was born. The objective was never to go head to head with Netflix, but to give users a reason to launch the TV app (to watch Apple’s original content). Once inside, Apple is in a prime position to sell you more iTunes content and promote additional streaming services for you, the user, to customise your own “streaming bundle” after you run out of shows to watch.
As such, there is no reason for Apple to buy Disney and offer all their content for free when they could have you subscribe to Disney+ (and earn a cut of the monthly subscription fee) or purchase some of their marvel / Star Wars titles (and earn a cut in the process as well).
There is also the issue of Disney possibly being a poor fit for Apple as an acquisition target, culture-wise. As a general rule of thumb, Apple does not do large-scale acquisitions for the sake of generating revenue. Instead, they tend to acquire smaller companies borg-style which contain technology that they can propagate amongst their products (such as Touch ID on all their iOS devices).
Disney would be too large a piece of meat for Apple to swallow. While a successful enterprise in its own right, Disney doesn’t really offer anything useful that Apple can use to augment their existing Apple devices. Tim Cook already has his hands full managing Apple, and I doubt he needs to be further distracted with having to manage another company with a very different business model.
There is simply no synergy between Apple and Disney.
“Disney doesn’t really offer anything useful that Apple can use to augment their existing Apple devices. “
Do you realize how much content and copyrights Disney owns? Plus, studios, production base, etc.
Do you realize how much content and copyrights Disney owns? Plus, studios, production base, etc.
Does it include the Hotstar subscribers in India? because Disney+ is launched and merged with Hotstar following their
acquisition of 21st Century Fox. and whoever has a Hotstar VIP/Premium Subscription gets a Disney + subscription now with the launch of the service last week. and Hotstar being very popular here in India, i would guess there should be alot more to add to the subscribers count.
acquisition of 21st Century Fox. and whoever has a Hotstar VIP/Premium Subscription gets a Disney + subscription now with the launch of the service last week. and Hotstar being very popular here in India, i would guess there should be alot more to add to the subscribers count.
Hot Take: We have a 12 year old, even when she was 11 (when D+ started), she had zero interest, she hasn't been into anything "directly" Disney related since she was like 6 or 7
(and only has passing interest in Marvel, and a few select Pixar films, that I have usually purchased anyway, so need for a channel for the same content ...)Did a free stint, Mandalorian was fine, but there's so much compelling content on other services (not including Apple ...), that has way more appeal to me and my wife.
Just want to mention that Apple is only one platform in the wide breadth of platforms. You are forgetting about at the minimum Android, set top boxes, game consoles, web browsers, and Roku. If Disney wanted, they could simply not be on Apple and still have the success they have today.
Apple is not an insignificant platform to be available on, but people tend to overrate it due to brand recognition in North America
My thought on Apple+ is it lacks branding finesse and direction. It’s all very clumsy. Most people still don’t realize that AppleTV+ is a SVOD service
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Does Apple know how to run the parks & resort side of the business?
It's like comparing Nice Fresh Sweet Apples and dirty stinking rotten apples that drop the F bomb ever 30 seconds.
I was sorely disappointed with Apple's content being so R rated. It's odd how the "best story tellers in the business" can't convey an emotion without some of the worst foul language on TV.
I'm out.
I was sorely disappointed with Apple's content being so R rated. It's odd how the "best story tellers in the business" can't convey an emotion without some of the worst foul language on TV.
I'm out.
I think Disney has also done a great job with customer goodwill by releasing Frozen 2 and Onward way ahead of schedule on D+ in the US with the current environment. Disney has always been great at brand management, and this has been another example. If you look all over social media, people (especially parents, though we don't have kids, and we thought Onward was great) have been extremely thankful at these early releases. Even for the Verizon free customers, when that one year comes up, this will still be in those people's minds.
47 million people ate at McDonalds yesterday too.
Quality content to me is something like PBS or The Criterion Channel. I get free Netflix from my $40/month T-Mobile line. But I rarely find anything worth watching on there.
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This really boggles my mind. If we assume that people are paying $4 a month, that means Disney currently has a guaranteed income of $200 million each month, meaning $2.4 billion per year! Holy guacamole!
I signed up during one of the pre-launch promos and I have to say D+ is great! TONS of new and classic content to choose from. Between cable TV, Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+ and of course YouTube my family has had no problem finding fresh content to watch separately and together during this pandemic. Now after the pandemic we've decided we're going on a digital detox because we're just looking at screens far to much right now (for obvious reasons). Can't wait to get past this and hang out with loved ones in-person and in public again.
Can they? I just checked their balance sheet out of curiosity. It shows 107.16B cash and 116.75B total debt. I am not an accountant but it looks like they have no cash to speak of.
I'll be really curious to know later this year how many subscribers Apple TV+ has once all of the free year subscriptions run out.
My wife has a subscription to Disney+ (mainly for our son and niece/nephew), but I think I have used Disney+ more than I have ATV+ (though Netflix/Hulu/HBO Now apps are used the most in our house). I highly doubt I will continue my ATV+ subscription once my free year is up on 11/1.
My wife has a subscription to Disney+ (mainly for our son and niece/nephew), but I think I have used Disney+ more than I have ATV+ (though Netflix/Hulu/HBO Now apps are used the most in our house). I highly doubt I will continue my ATV+ subscription once my free year is up on 11/1.
The subscriber numbers are just the facts. I mentioned that it’s not Apples to apples, but 50M subscribers in less than 6 months is insane.
Yes there is a ton of stuff I remember just in the Through the Decades section.
You’re in the minority, which is fine, but mass appeal doesn’t mean garbage.
Most people don’t think McDonald’s is the best food ever, but it still serves a purpose And does it well.