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Netflix CEO Confirms Netflix Won't Be Part of Apple's Upcoming Video Service
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Neither of our baseless beliefs are worth anything at all.
I think it'll be like Apple Music all over again. Sure netflix app is there for iOS and Apple TV, but it'll be "just another app" in your homescreen, because it's not tied deeply into the ecosystem. No Siri VJ-ing (in regards of video service) or the consistency of app interface. Funny thing because both Netflix and Spotify favors the black and Apple may prefer white interface as if it's the antithesis of both.
Well, we do not know if Apple is making any money on Apple Music either, do we? And that's with 30% handicap that they inflict on Spotify on iOS platform. BTW, Spotify has just started making profits.
My household subscribes to zero. Me and my daughters play with legos, draw, paint, play outside, go for hikes, go to the playground. I’m not even sure when we would have time to watch TV. We have life to live.
I think your statement (or rather the premise of it) is way more baseless than the OP's one. The fact that Apple wants their content to be family friendly has been reported many times. Their App Store policies should be taken as a consideration too. Situation may change but as things stand right now an assumption that Apple produced content will be "family friendly" has solid grounds.
Yeah, the same way Apple Music is flopping so hard now that Spotify wants to take them to court.
Don't forget the assets Disney owns now, not to mention the rumoured acquisition of 20th Century Fox.
Fuller House? That was based on an old show and hardly original. House of Cards flopped after 3 seasons, Orange is decent, and Defenders is mediocre.
I mean, you can be in denial, but these are not epic examples of content.
Think about Disney content.
Which is why I don't have much faith in it. They can barely nail things they care about let alone a hobby.
They made a whole $100M in operating income and still forecast listing $400M for the year? Not impressed, still not profitable because of 1 quarter. Their own guidance calls for them losing 4 times that.
Apple services have margins in the 60% range, grow at 20% and have over $45B in revenue. I’m confident Apple makes money on it, probably almost pure profit.
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They nail plenty. Services are Apple’s biggest growth engine at over 20%. They will get this right and have all the money they need to do it. That’s the key in content...buying it.
House of cards had 6 seasons. Fuller house, not the show it’s based on, had 4 seasons (going on 5).
Disney ripped off public domain content and than used its lawyers to prevent others from using it. Think about the one original ideal Disney has had.
As far as I understand the majority of profits in Apple services comes from Google ($9B) and Apple Care. There is a reason Apple does not disclose the amounts for individual services (and I suspect that's because it would be too embarrassing).
Regardless of how Disney got some of their content, it’s theirs. They make money on it from shows, box office, parks, and merchandising. Masters at it. They’ve also created a ton of content.
House of Cards has 6 seasons and flopped after 3. Look at the ratings. I standby by that.
Again, Fuller House was a reboot and is by no means a hugely popular show. Look at the ratings. Not an original concept and a small potatoes show regardless.
Disney owns so much content, it’s hard to even list it all. Just “Frozen” is probably bigger than all of Netflix’s entire original content library.
and Google (Android TV) will follow Apple, obviously and Samsung (Samsung TV) will make their own too.
Stand by whatever you want. Those shows were Netflix exclusives and popular. Disney buys content. Frozen is exactly my point. They took a public domain property and endlessly shoved it in our faces. If you remove the content they purchased after it was made and the public domain content Disney doesn’t have anything.
Google has had streaming services for many years now (have you heard about YouTube, YouTube TV?) so if anything Apple is following Google here. It makes more sense for Google to do this though as they are a service company first and foremost. Apple and Samsung? I do not get this trend of hardware OEMs venturing into content creation. It seems illogical.
Thats what apple is doing / You sign in their eco system, click the and pay the @channelw@ You want / and then You got them presented seamlessly
Maybe some of the channes will be in a higher subscrition fee included like apple plus or thing
But i guess anyhow the thing will be that its integrated, well we would that expect from the steve apple / lets see!
If Apple TV comes with an interface where “free” and “paid” contents are all mixed together like amazon prime, I will never subscribe it.
It’s soo annoying to like a title, only to find out that the “subscription” isn’t enough and I have to pay more to access that content. To me, it’s just pure advertisement. And I personally don’t want it.
It’s soo annoying to like a title, only to find out that the “subscription” isn’t enough and I have to pay more to access that content. To me, it’s just pure advertisement. And I personally don’t want it.
That’s a valid assessment, and I agree. I don’t think many people can make that differentiation and I’d like to find you a taller soap box.
You have a point here ... unfortunately
Netflix has original content for a very special audience while disney is a monster and close to apple.
Amazon nor youtube were really able to bring a real tv service with good content on the long run / and steve apple would have definetly kicked some ass, lets see if greed succeds or the offer some real better experience!
So Disney doesn’t make money from the content you think they stole? Hilarious.
Point is, Disney HAS content people pay to see. They own it, however they got it.
Disney has plenty of original content that was not purchased too, like Mickey and the rest of their characters. That is huge for kids. They also have plenty of movies in the vault, TV shows on Disney channel, etc.
If it’s easy to just steal public domain and market it heavily, why doesn’t everyone do it? Because Disney adds value and makes stuff people want to see. They may have bought Marvel, but they sure did execute.
You can’t just minimize the greatest content owner in the world by poo pooing their entire strategy as if it’s easy to replicate. That’s the whole point...no one can replicate it. You know how much of the Box Office Disney owns? Its like almost 30%. It’s utter dominance.