Apple will continue to burn money on Apple TV regardless, so yes, it will do fine. However, if they want it to be competitive they need sports. More than soccer. They need one of the big four.
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Jon Stewart Confirms Apple Canceled Show: 'They Didn't Want Me to Say Things That Might Get Me in Trouble'
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Apple will continue to burn money on Apple TV regardless, so yes, it will do fine. However, if they want it to be competitive they need sports. More than soccer. They need one of the big four.
Not anti-Chinese, anti-Chinese government. Big difference
The ending of this story seems about right for Apple. Untapped revenue will remain untapped for Apple until they get out of their comfort zone with things like this.
You’re probably right. I took his words of 'unnecessarily straightjacketing' as being that way. But he just wants further reach because his shows are getting cut for more important news at the time.
Fair enough. My comments remains though. Isn’t Tim Apple bowing to Xi, it’s more bowing to the market. Nothing to do with Woke or any other pointless term like that.
What would you consider to be in the big 4? Cricket, Aussie Rules? 😃. I’m assume NHL, MLB, NBA, NFL? Do they show MLB in the states like they do in Oz? We get a couple of games per week. I think that’s been answered somewhere else in these threads. Soccer is huge at the moment on Australia.
Is there?
With a bazillion chinese how does that regime stay in power if a good amount of the people are not onboard with it?
Many agree with their government. Of course many don’t as well. It has the same sort of economy as the U.S. being a Mixed Socialist/Capitalist economy. They just don’t have the chaos that causes regime change like US/UK/Aust. Or if you like, they are a democracy in a very similar way to many countries. They just don’t have maximum number of terms like the U.S. for better or worse. It makes them much more stable.
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IMO china is a knock off 1st world country, it’s as fake as lots of the knock offs there, basically it’s really a 3rd world country, and unless the people do something about it they are ok with the government, and if they are ok with that gov, I’m not ok with them ether
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So Apple was hesitant about a loud, divisive voice. Maybe Stewart should do some self-reflection and consider how he can contribute to dialogue.
Considering the Actual Definition of First World was a country who supported the United States in the Cold War, and now it’s a country aligned with NATO, then I don’t see your point. China and the U.S. are a lot more alike than you are suggesting. If the Red team win, given yesterdays news, the the U.S. may technically become a third world country. 😂 It’s more accurate to call them both a socialist/capitalist country with a democratic Electoral system. The type of democracy is different however.
Jon Stewart is a political commentator, thus I always found it weird that Apple picked him up. I guess an experiment that ran its course. He should just do what he does best. I guess this was a way to get his serious voice across instead of having to rely on humour. It will be interesting to see which side he brings out. However humour seems the best way for the centre-left to relate to Fox's desperation.
The four in the US:
NFL
NBA
NHL
MLB
MLS is on the rise and F1 is also beginning to break through in America.
Me? I’m an F1 fan. Have been for a very long time. That’s the only one I’m personally interested in but the big four are the money makers and the ones that will draw subscriptions.
The US is not a democracy it’s a constitutional republic
And china is thankfully quite different, go criticize the president on Facebook in both places (or wait china censored the net), but in the US you can say anything you want, go talk poorly about their “leader” in china and see what happens
Or go practice the wrong religion in china
I still remember all the protests in Hong Kong protests and who even the NBA players were critical of china and how the media told them they best not say anything mean about china, I’d imagine china as a influence in apple entertainment as well, and Stewart has been calling out all the BS in china for a while now, seems once he got off Comedy Central he was able to start speaking more truth
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Oh, honey. You have a lot to learn about the nature of state power and the various methods of population control available, propaganda being chief amongst them. Of course tbe population could stage an uprising… and it would be about as successful as a bathing suit on a sub zero day.
I’m the same. Ever since the Adelaide Grand Prix days. Season almost started. And the only reason I pay $30 a month just to watch it. Plus of course the outrageous cost of travelling to Singapore for that race.
Representative democracy is still democracy.
Thankfully? You don’t think China should have a democratic system?
Well, you actually can’t say anything you want about the president in America. You can land yourself in prison for saying certain things about whomever holds the office.
And the notion that there’s complete religious freedom in America is… debatable.
Regardless, yes. Two vastly different nations and this is WAY off topic.
I was surprised that For All Mankind made Unionization and China such a major part of the most recent season. I kind of thought those topics would have been taboo for Apple.
(Technically "North Korea", but it's quite obvious that NK is just a stand-in for China.)
(Technically "North Korea", but it's quite obvious that NK is just a stand-in for China.)
Through a surveillance state, locked-down access to outside and/or dissenting information, and Tiananmen Square.
What? I can think of several series that are some of the best I've ever seen. Just incredible. So there's that. Add to that, Netflix producing mediocre programing, over and over, and over.....
Sadly I fully admit to having been a part of those loud voices at times
Propaganda is right. My son’s partner is from China. A couple of years ago, she was shown a video of Tiananmen Square. She broke down in tears. 30 years on China and she had no idea it even happened. Unfortunately, people get tarnished by a single view of politics and social media compounds this. Conspiracies become real and people are too insulated to look around. I’m probably a little guilty of not looking over the walled garden from time to time.
What has Tiananmen Square have to do with the U.S.? Oh you’re saying those other things don’t happen there…. Okay.
I’ll say it again. The 2 countries are aligned a lot more than you’d want to believe.
Ironically, I went to MONA last week and saw an exhibit called The White House by Ai WeiWei, a Chinese artist who has been imprisoned several times in China for speaking out against the state. The White House is a structure of a Chinese House, Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) reconstructed in the gallery. His lack of subtlety is refreshing.
But you are right. Way off topic.