I don't think you understand what a "straw man argument" is, but ok.
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Hollywood Producers Say 'Intrusive' Apple Executives and 'Lack of Clarity' Impeding Original Content Efforts
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I don't think you understand what a "straw man argument" is, but ok.
If Jony Ive sticks his minimalist mitts into the works, expect all the shows to be in black and white where everyone wears grey and speaks meaningless, airy “contextually durable and precision-focused” snippets in monotone.
Hard to tell anything yet, isn’t it?
HBO is the benchmark. Netflix has some good content and so does Prime. My guess is Apple will, too. They’re all drawing from pretty much the same pool of talent, though there are some exclusive tie-ups. As long as you can write checks, you can get good content. However, just having the money isn’t enough; the quality of the decision-making execs is just as (or more) important. Apple’s made some good hires and I’m sure more will follow.
But the idea that Cook would hire people who know what they’re doing but then micro-manage the effort with notes like “Don’t be so mean!” is laughable. Cook has shown a lot of patience with some (sometimes too much) and given them plenty of rope, but of course the Apple-hate crowd is quick to believe he’s now a tyrannical, note-passing micro-manager. Apple hiring/firing writers? Yeah, that’s not how it works.
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They should try and get the rights and do a spinoff of "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul", focusing on the rise of drug kingpin Tuco Salamanca, portrayed by Ramond Cruz.
I don't think we would have ended up with Breaking Bad if execs had sent Vince Gilligan notes that said: "Don't be so mean!!!"
I’ve had zero interest in this project since the get-go, so none of this is changing my mind on it. In fact, all it did was reinforce my original decision.
AKA confirmation bias. Seems like it would be hard to know if the content is any good before you see it, but I guess you’ve got that worked out.
It is going to be garbage. You don't get shows like The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Game of Thrones, The Wire, etc by letting corporate bozos have creative input. You get shows like that by letting the creators have full freedom. Do you honestly thing anyone at the high up positions at Apple know how to make a great tv show or movie? We are going to get soulless junk that is politically correct and inoffensive. A nice, polite, and nonthreatening package of media to go along with their nice, clean, polite, and inoffensive products and corporate ideology. These people in Silicon Valley live in Lala land and think they can make the world into their weird utopia.
This is why Netflix has a decent amount of good content, because they give their creators full freedom. There is a lot of junk too but that's bound to happen to get the gold every once and awhile.
This whole Apple getting into making content stuff has sounded dumb since day one.
So true.
Can you imagine if Tim found out that Walter had something to do with an entire passenger jet going down?! Or a girl ODs' at her boyfriends house? He'd probably fire the Producer and the entire writing team. ROFLMAO
Lack of clarity pervades Apple at every level and can be attributed to one person: Tim Cook. Companies lose focus and clarity when they lack leadership and vision at the top.
The branding message since 2012 is overpriced and yesterday’s news. Timmy better could paying attention to this than watching and commenting shows. My guess he’s clueless on both.
Apple, whoever is in charge of this project. Yea I think that's fair to say, but they want to get into services, so here we are. Apple Music has been a success so far so I think they want to replicate that with video. Makes sense on the surface, but obviously being the content creators is much different than just being the platform for such a service.
No, but I’m sure your crystal ball helps immeasurably. PM me lotto numbers when you get a chance
Sounds to me Cook is aiming for a remake of Bambi
Bambi has deaths and fires and violence. No way he would go that far.
Yes if only we could go back to the days when every gay character depicted was either dealing with AIDS or coming out of the closet!
/sarcasm in case it’s not obvious enough.
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Wish ‘they’ used a fraction of that cash for their Mac business. It wouldn’t cost a billion for all those years for getting the Mac and their software state of the art again.
But let’s waist it on our own streaming video services nobody’s missing when it ever sees the light of day. Timmy probably heard the profit margin is around 60% on those
Oh wait, I’ll correct myself: don’t be so mean
Remember folks, Steve Jobs put this clown in charge.