Jane Krakowski to Star Alongside Hailee Steinfeld in Apple's Upcoming Emily Dickinson TV Show

[I7guy]

Yeah, but under Tim Cook, Apple is clearly aspiring to be "Jack of all trades, but master of none", where they were quite amazing at a few things they did before (Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad), now everything just average, buggy on release, and they've ignored their core group of users who make a living on the Pro products...

And they have catered to customers who bought enough products and services to take the company to 1T. Just sayin’.
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Because they have to find new revenue streams. The tech industry is completely saturated right now. Until there is a giant leap in battery technology, all everyone is doing is putting out incremental upgrades. No one is really wowing us.

Methinks, some people are wowed, some aren’t.

 

[PlainviewX]

This is a very sad line from the piece..... Such a failure from our schooling system, not the teachers.

For those unfamiliar with Emily Dickinson, she was a prolific American poet known for short lines, slant rhymes, and irregular use of punctuation. Much of her work focused on death and immortality, and she was known for living a reclusive life.

 

[thisisnotmyname]

Why, oh why, would Apple go into the business of making garbage content? If Apple is going to compete in today’s entertainment industry, Apple will have to participate in the current race to the bottom. Apple will have to produce garbage content to cater to our current garbage culture. Apple, stop. Really, just stop.

you really think a show about the life of Emily Dickenson is "content to cater to our current garbage culture?"

 

[cmChimera]

I still don't understand the point of making your own content. Apple was always about not doing EVERYTHING... just the few things BETTER than everyone else. Content exists everywhere. For Apple to claim that nothing that exists is any good, would make no sense. They were the vessel for the content to reach it's users... now they want to be both the vessel and the content producer. What's next? Will Tim Cook become the actors?

It's hard not to see the potential original content can have not only in regards to services revenue stream, but sales of supported hardware that has the competitive advantage of the Apple ecosystem. I think this is a smart play.

 

[DotCom2]

Apple should just stop trying to make content and buy Tesla, and put Elon out of his misery and let him go back to digging holes and making rockets!

 

[sinsin07]

It's hard not to see the potential original content can have not only in regards to services revenue stream, ...

Post on this thread and other MR topics shows the opposite.
It is hard to see when one is reluctant to venture beyond his/her own bubble.

 

[doelcm82]

I got excited for a second about a potential series based on the life of Susanna Dickinson.

 

[StevieD100]

Not sure why people are trashing a show that hasn’t been produced, filmed or distributed yet.

Why?
Simple really.
It is not an update/new version to their favourite Apple product. Many seem to have the impression that there is just Jonny Ive and a few Software Engineers designing, building and coding everything in the back of a basement somewhere and that the all of the occupants of the 'Spaceship' are there to count the money.
/s

 

[Packers1958]

I sure won't pay money to watch this stuff.

 

[tom5304]

you really think a show about the life of Emily Dickenson is "content to cater to our current garbage culture?"

Yes. Yes, I do. Wait until Hollywood and Silicon Valley get their paws on it. They’ll figure out a way to make the entertainment degrading and degenerate.

 

[Gasu E.]

I still don't understand the point of making your own content. Apple was always about not doing EVERYTHING... just the few things BETTER than everyone else. Content exists everywhere. For Apple to claim that nothing that exists is any good, would make no sense. They were the vessel for the content to reach it's users... now they want to be both the vessel and the content producer. What's next? Will Tim Cook become the actors?

Apple isn't actually making this. They are just buying exclusive rights upfront to shows being made by real production companies. Netflix and Prime do the same. You say "content exists everywhere", but that's just silly-- the content that exists has already been seen, and relatively few people would subscribe to a service that only provides re-runs. You want to watch the same shows over and over again, however good they may have been the first time? OK, but I don't. If you want new shows, as I do, someone has to pay for that development.

 

[CosCom Inc]

Good. She's fantastic in everything she does. She'll be a great asset to the show.

I can see that too

 

[15ngcs1]

Because this is the internet, and you're required to automatically hate everything, or else you lose your "edgy" cred.

--Eric

Then that's stupid. That's not what the internet was created for. You're just jumping on the bandwagon.

 

[15ngcs1]

This is a very sad line from the piece..... Such a failure from our schooling system, not the teachers.

For those unfamiliar with Emily Dickinson, she was a prolific American poet known for short lines, slant rhymes, and irregular use of punctuation. Much of her work focused on death and immortality, and she was known for living a reclusive life.

"And Dickinson’s adolescence is arguably one of the most intriguing periods of her life. She became increasingly reclusive from the age of 25, but was relatively active and sociable as a teenager, studying extensively at Amherst Academy in Massachusetts and befriending several men and women who became mentor figures. In early 1850, aged 20, she wrote that her hometown was “alive with fun” – a side of the sombre poet rarely seen in later life."

 

[Eric5h5]

Then that's stupid. That's not what the internet was created for. You're just jumping on the bandwagon.

Yep, you're getting the hang of it!

--Eric