Great excuse for AT&T to take this away from us now. Awesome.
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Warner Bros. to Replace HBO Max With New 'Max' Streaming Service
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It’s a bummer that HBO is going the way of Netflix. Adding a bunch of crap HBO subscribers didn’t want.
Probably working out for them in the money department but it doesn’t give me warm fuzzies.
Probably working out for them in the money department but it doesn’t give me warm fuzzies.
The next name is going to be . Just no letters nothing, just nothing.Now
The HBO brand is iconic. I don't understand this move. It would be like if Disney + changed their name to just "Plus"
You can slap "Max" on anything. Disney+ can become "Disney Max." Netflix can introduce a new tier called "8K Max."
thank god I'm a cord cutter... I now only pay for 25 different streaming services 🤔...
Right. "HBO" in the name says or suggests "watchable content." You don't really get that from just "Max".
I'm sure those of us that were force-fed HBO Max by AT&T will wind up either dropping Max altogether or getting the ad-lite version or some crap. I can't imagine AT&T being nice enough to just give us the 2-stream ad-free and call it a day.
Retiring a 50-year old brand (HBO) with the cache that it has and replacing it with a shortened name based on your 42-year old brand that never had the same cache is simply the height of stupidity on a marketing level…however, it is completely par for the course by WB Discovery’s current management.
Frankly, they aren’t the only ones making novel knee-jerk idiotic decisions in the media streaming world.
Frankly, they aren’t the only ones making novel knee-jerk idiotic decisions in the media streaming world.
Works the other way, also for Discovery+ subscribers that aren't interested in the most of the junk on HBO Max.
This is .... wow .... one of the worst "branding" shifts I can think of since, well, probably the Pepsci disaster. And even that pales in comparison to how bad this decision is.
Discovery+ will still be offered standalone though so that segment of people is unaffected.
Maybe they thought that like Kanye --> Ye was so cool, they'd do it.
Jokes on them (and Ye). Neither is cool.
This must go down as one of the dumbest business decisions ever. Sure, Why keep your established brand in the name, right?
Also this logo is UGLY. 90s internet vibes.
I wish them nothing but the worst. I hope this leads to a big churn rate and low new subscription numbers
Also this logo is UGLY. 90s internet vibes.
I wish them nothing but the worst. I hope this leads to a big churn rate and low new subscription numbers
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Kinda an apples and oranges situation. It's just called "The App Store" because it's the exclusive way to get apps on the iPhone, and only iPhones use it so there's no reason to call it the "iPhone App Store". They're not trying to advertise the store to any other smartphone user
You can just tick the switch to "Free to Me" and it hides all the paid for content. What I wish they'd do is add a filter for "All content / Add-Free content only". I cannot stand what something starts up in FreeVee and a 30 minute video has 10 non-skippable add blocks - usually breaking in the middle of dialog.
On topic for this thread - HBO and Discovery+ have separate audiences. Combining leading original programming and a catalog back to the 80's with Discovery's crapload of reality TV is awful. Hopefully they will restore the complete HBO back catalog and put in a filter for HBO / Discovery / All Content.
Sorry, it does not look good , since they will change the name it will be whole different app that you need to subscribe to it.