This really reminds me of the dot-com boom of 20 years ago when lots of big companies spent billions on things that they didn’t really understand in order to keep up and lost billions more than they spent.
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WSJ on Apple's Video Service: Starz, Showtime, and HBO to Cost $9.99 Per Month, Roku May Gain Apple TV App
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What metric are you basing that on? Are you privy to internal performance reviews that none of us have acces to or is that simply based on you not being happy as a customer?
Devils in the details. Does the lower price mean this specific subscription can only be accessed via an Apple TV or only iOS devices? Will this subscription work via browser or Chromecast, for instance?
That is indeed what Apple should set their sights on. Not making more personalized content - we have plenty of that - but make it easy to access that content though personalized pricing schemes. You described one system, there could be many others (auto-churn for instance). There's the next disrupter.
If that happens to any significant degree, AT&T will just end their deal with Apple as being unproductive to the bottom line. For that matter, what AT&T intends to do with HBO is still an open question. Whatever Apple is doing, the rug could be pulled out from under them in a few months when AT&T launches their own streaming service with HBO as part of it.
2015. That’s when they stopped making their own TVs and sold use of their name to Hisense and then Hisense rebranded their low end (terrible) units as Sharp. Sharp took them to court, but last I had read Hisense had every legal right to do it - and no intention of changing it.
An Apple subscription service is going to be pricey and won't be cheaper than going direct to the source, in my opinion. I hope Apple proves me wrong.
I am all for the ala carte, unplugged, binge watching world of streaming services we now live in. It gives people control & choice, and thats a good thing.
But with Disney pulling their stuff from Netflix, and every media company hording their own content & starting their own streaming service now...i see a point where things may become too seperated forcing you to buy into dozens of services to get all the content you want...and then we’re right back to the high bills of the cable days.
Still...i do prefer this new cable-less world. At least you do have more control & choice now...even if those choices are spread out over dozens of different streaming services.
But with Disney pulling their stuff from Netflix, and every media company hording their own content & starting their own streaming service now...i see a point where things may become too seperated forcing you to buy into dozens of services to get all the content you want...and then we’re right back to the high bills of the cable days.
Still...i do prefer this new cable-less world. At least you do have more control & choice now...even if those choices are spread out over dozens of different streaming services.
Basically Apple is announcing a business model of subscribing through Apple. Which is basically what you can already do with Amazon already.
Huh I was unaware of that. Haven’t bought a TV since 2013. I’ve always bought Sharp Aquos TVs. This is disappointing!
Eddy is a winner which is why he controls the Services division. He's a safe pair of hands.
About Forstall, he just seemed to execute the mini-Steve too soon and didn't have the backing of the influencers at Apple to survive. He could have done worse than to make sure Eddy was on cue. Alas, he didn't so he was forced out.
Same here. I have Netflix. I have Amazon Prime with my annual subscription. And Hulu with Spotify. I don’t need any more subscription services. As i said before. If it isnt on one of those services. I can simply do without seeing it.
Nothing, but I think thats kinda his point. Is anyone clamouring for yet another subscription service to sign up to? The guy you quoted obviously isn't it seems he, like me, are generally interested in apple for their high quality integrated hardware and software offerings. The market is pretty flooded with streaming services at the moment; I have Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify probably others that I've forgotten about. I'd quite like to only have to subscribe to one, but given the number of Netflix originals and prime originals that aren't going to be on the apple service, and the HBO shows that are never going to be on Netflix or Amazon it seems this isn't gonna happen.
I guess there are a fair few of us who'd like apple to focus on continuing to deliver quality hardware and accompanying software rather than launching another subscription service for media services that are already available elsewhere.
Tim Cook appears on stage and says " I have read your comments about pretending to care about the Mac Pro. We have read them loud and clear. So we are discontinuing it, effective today."
Given how horribly this guy screwed up Siri, if he’s the next CEO, I fear for apple’s future
10 shows for $10? That is a very bad idea and you should feel very bad.
1) If this report is true and Apple will be charging for their original content, then they’re also going to be including licensed content alongside it, same as Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, Hulu etc. Nobody’s going to pay for a couple dozen originals, of which only a handful will appeal to any given customer.
2) Anyone who thinks $10 is going to buy a bundle of all three services together—which cost $14.99, 10.99 and 8.99 EACH—has rocks in their head. I have no idea why the author could possibly think “each” refers to the user instead of the services. Especially since there’s likely to be far more than these three channels, as Apple was reportedly talking to 10-15 providers. The ones mentioned are just the major players.
2) Anyone who thinks $10 is going to buy a bundle of all three services together—which cost $14.99, 10.99 and 8.99 EACH—has rocks in their head. I have no idea why the author could possibly think “each” refers to the user instead of the services. Especially since there’s likely to be far more than these three channels, as Apple was reportedly talking to 10-15 providers. The ones mentioned are just the major players.
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There is no way in hell they are going to offer HBO, Cinemax, and Starz for $10 combined people, come on now. The article says that’s “not clear” but let’s get back to reality here.