omg why can't Apple just make the new Mtv, the way Mtv used to be when they played music videos? They have all these music videos already, they have Apple Music, they have the Apple TV... put it all together. No, that would make sense...
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iTunes Chief Eddy Cue: 'We're All In' on Original Content
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So Eddy, everyone wants to know... What exactly do you and have you done at Apple?
Eddy Cue - Next question.
Eddy Cue - Next question.
Some hubris to tell me what I should be reading. I can get my info on my own, thanks. When I open Apple news all I see is politics. It’s sickening. Cue is C[l]ue[less].
Specious reasoning at its best. Producing content has brought down more than one mega studio. Netflix is over 30 billion in debt, likely with no hope of ever recouping it. By your reasoning, no one would do anything ever.
Apple seems pretty confused on what to do post-Steve Jobs and is now clearly just throwing spaghetti on the wall.
I share your thoughts. I can’t judge Eddy Cue based on never meeting him in person, but I think it’s the way his composure is on stage and his sense of arrogance. It just seems that he places himself above everything else with his attitude. If you the viewer only sees Eddy Cue primarily on stage, that’s primarily what they’re basing their projection of him. In comparison, Craig Federighi seems/appears very genuine.
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Outside of Safari and maybe Mail, Apple News is my most used app. But I’m a news junkie and have always been one. I like the way I can tailor my news sources.
With respect to all the Cue hate, well, that’s the quickest way to establishing forum cred here. I think he’s doing an excellent job, and Apple is lucky to have him.
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Netflix and Disney are partners with Apple. Eddie didn't say their partners have no quality. He just said that Apple is only interested in quality. To me, that reads that Apple's initial original content will be sparse when compared to the hundreds of titles that Netflix seems to release every month and the dozens of superhero movies that seem to come out every year. If you ask me, both Disney and Netflix have a very mixed track record on quality but they both overdeliver on quantity to the point of saturating the market with forgettable IP.
I always forget about Apple news because I spend most of my news cycle time on an iMac. But every time I stumble upon Apple News, it does offer a solid experience. I just think Apple needs to find a way to seamlessly offer the service across all iOS devices and MacOS devices alike the same way that iMessage functions across platforms.
I don't understand where people are supposed to actually watch their original content. Apple Music? Why would I watch a TV show on something called Apple Music? I'm hoping there is a grand master plan behind this focus on original content, but I don't think they'll be able to make enough of it fast enough.
They need to partner with content creators and make that killer app that allows you to watch it all, but I don't think the current "TV" app is doing it right.
They need to partner with content creators and make that killer app that allows you to watch it all, but I don't think the current "TV" app is doing it right.
iTunes was bad long before Steve passed and Apple TV has only improved since Steve passed. I'm not an Eddie apologist but those are not good examples of Eddie's incompetence.
I quit using Apple News in iOS 10. The redesign then was a major step backwards. The awkward layout of stories (some a large tiles, some medium, some small - it's just not attractive) and no way to see which stories I've already read really just turned me off to the entire app.
You're making big assumption there. You may be right but if Eddie's "all in" comments are true, I'd expect Apple's original content to be offered on non-Apple devices as well. The big names and producers involved with these original projects would not be working with Apple if their potential audience is capped at 5% (the percent of AppleTV devices) of U.S. audience.
I think you're 100% right on Eddie's meaning of "quality over quantity". However it's no less trite than any other bog standard marketing phrase. Quality content depends on quantity. Quality content doesn't just become quality content because that is your goal. You gotta kiss a lot of frogs to find that prince. You gotta squeeze a lot of stones to make a diamond. <insert more phrases here> If making quality content were as easy as "concentrating on making it"... well, everyone would do it. There's no guarantee what they perceive as quality will be perceived as that by the public. A mix of well thought out projects and lots of them is how success is gained in the entertainment industry.
Besides, it's easy to say you're going to do something. Actions thus far (their public facing programming efforts) tell a story opposite of quality.
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Companies like Netflix don't get to pick and choose individual pieces of content based on performance. It's generally a package license. You take the good with the bad.
There's a reason that Netflix is spending less and less on license content from others over the past couple years and instead investing over $1 billion a year in original content. Even with an investment like that it's still more profitable to own the content than license it.
You're right but it works both ways. Creating tons of content will only obfuscate your truly standout titles. I'm sure Apple is gunning for a balance of both quality and quantity but they always choose "quality" because it is at the center of their brand messaging and because terms like "quantity" conjure up things like spec wars and companies like Samsung throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks. I also believe that Apple is trying to prepare subscribers for an initial smaller offering of titles compared to all of the other streaming services out there because Apple has such a late start here.
Stop being a racist.
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Stop being racist .
Visually, the articles are well organized and legible. The content, however, is redundant and limited to a handful of respected sources; most of the sources hardly qualify as journalism and tend to report on pop culture topics. Personally, I don't rely on it for news and therefore don't use it. Internet journalism is opinionated and biased. I suspect >90 percent of the sources simply regurgitate what they read on each others' sites and never investigate anything personally and properly.
For casual reading of magazine-like content, I prefer Flipboard. I miss Zite, which set the bar for aggregate RSS content. Flipboard acquired Zite but failed to adopt its superior presentation.