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Apple TV+, With Shows From Spielberg, Oprah and J.J. Abrams, is Coming This Fall (cnet.com)
Alongside its new news and payment services, Apple today also unveiled Apple TV+, a place for its new slate of original shows. The new service, billed as a place for the "highest-quality storytelling," will be available in over 100 countries and released starting this fall through the Apple TV app. From a report: It will be ad-free, on-demand and available both streaming online and downloadable. Pricing will be announced this fall. Apple TV Plus is the company's way of jumping into the streaming video game, where Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and others have already established themselves and brought in millions of cord-cutter customers fleeing cable subscriptions. The new service also works as a way for Apple to grow its thriving services business, helping it continue to grow despite lagging iPhone sales.
The company in 2017 hired Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg from Sony Pictures Television to oversee "all aspects of video programming." The two were responsible for shows such as Breaking Bad, The Crown and Rescue Me. And in the past year, Apple has continually announced original content it's producing -- including a multiyear partnership deal with Oprah and deals with Reese Witherspoon, J.J. Abrams and dozens of others. The company has reportedly gone well past its original $1 billion budget to bring in this list of movie and television A-listers, who are slated to create about 30 shows and a handful of movies.
The company in 2017 hired Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg from Sony Pictures Television to oversee "all aspects of video programming." The two were responsible for shows such as Breaking Bad, The Crown and Rescue Me. And in the past year, Apple has continually announced original content it's producing -- including a multiyear partnership deal with Oprah and deals with Reese Witherspoon, J.J. Abrams and dozens of others. The company has reportedly gone well past its original $1 billion budget to bring in this list of movie and television A-listers, who are slated to create about 30 shows and a handful of movies.
This is the third article on Apple in the past day, how much Apple news do we really need?
Because I don't see it going anywhere if it does. I can put Netflix, Amazon Video, Hulu, and a dozen other paid and free streaming services on my Roku, and my understanding is that the Amazon stick and the Chromecast are mostly similar.
I'm not buying another box just to add one channel, especially not one that costs 3X the cost of my premium Roku (with non-premium Rokus costing more like a fifth of the price.)
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
I'm not sure about this effort, one of the few things of all the shows and collaborations they announced that seemed at all appealing was the Spielberg bringing back "Amazing Stories".
To me all the big names is kind of a turn off. Not only did that part go on FOREVER and was way to thick on the celebrity worship for my tastes, but to me the bigger names just seem devoid of really interesting ideas, I feel like I have got a lot more unique and interesting content from Netflix.
I wish them luck, but it's a pretty rough field to be launching a new TV service into, what with both Netflix and Amazon hammering out new shows at a prodigious rate.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
not to update IOS, once they make AppleTV part of it.
I just wish I could disable the "pending update" notifications.
Will it be locked to Apple hardware?
The missing part of the summary is that the Apple "TV" app (distinguished from the Apple TV hardware), is going to be going into a bunch of smart TV's, but also Roku and Amazon TV hardware.
So you'll be able to see this content on pretty much anything (also iOS).
Only thing I'm not sure of, as if there will be an Android app... I would say, probably.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If it forces you to have Apple hardware/software then include me out.
There's one more big one to come (Apple Arcade), Slashdot seems to be spreading out the stories a bit so as not to flood the feed all at once. Apple had a busy morning, for announcing things you cannot get anytime soon...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Guess Steve's not /quite/ as anti-streaming as he let on, if the price is right?
(yeah, I know, it was about feature films, but still)
We are fed up with Spielberg, Oprah and J.J. Abrams, Jennifer Anniston.
All of the aboveâ(TM)s careers are over the hill.
But, they make sure that they are in the limelight thanks to their deep pockets.
And now they have allied themselves with a deeper pocket sponsor to further their doomed careers.
Enough said.
The walled garden has taken it's first step towards Orwellian. I get it. Lot's of non-Apple news today though, unless your a hatefilled lib and want to distract...
Welcome to The Apple Channel
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Welcome to The Google Channel
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Welcome to The Apple Country
Welcome to The Microsoft Country
Welcome to The Google Country
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Welcome to The Apple Planet-Hunting Spaceship (looking for anywhere but Earth to inhabit)
Welcome to The Microsoft Planet-Hunting Spaceship (looking for anywhere but Earth to inhabit)
Welcome to The Google Planet-Hunting Spaceship (looking for anywhere but Earth to inhabit)
Seriously, where does this stop. WW3 I assume.
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Every movie he's directed has been terrible. They've all had major problems with action, characters, and plot.
He has been a fine producer, however. At least he seems able to help better directors make something good.
Look, I buy lots of Apple stuff, I've got at least three Apple computers and a couple of iPhones, but my reaction to the whole Apple TV is ... Meh.
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I've stopped watching most 'fiction', it's just so boring. Scripted shows are cringe. There are a few DIY people on youtube, and some infotainment that I watch. Haven't seen a movie in years, can't remember the last time I could even name a hit show.
Produce as much of this slop as you want. People have stopped watching.
I miss the Apple dog-and-pony shows where they announced stuff that was available for purchase/download now (or at least within a week). These days Apple seems to use their announcement shows to promote things that won't see the light of day for months.
So Apple puts on another show and doesn't announce price? Well I am sure some Apple sheep won't care how much it costs. But It might be interesting to the rest of the world who values services on how much it cost. I'll bet money third party device support will not come out immediately because Apple will try and sell its own hardware first.
said must-see-TV is coming this fall.
No body watches TV except in L.A.
Bittorrent is almost 20 years old.. it's funny how these exclusive platforms just push people towards illegal methods to obtain the media for free.
Expect Apple fail with a decent spike in subscribers then lack of subscriber growth and slow loss of subscribers.
Entering a low margin business with lots of established competition is not Apple's usual business strategy.
There's no real cost to shifting subscriptions to another provider. Apple only adds a news feed subscription of which only the NY Times in recent memory has garnered significant new subscribers and most of them are from outside the USA.
I've cancelled subscriptions and paid services other than basic internet and a cell phone with a replacement cell phone every 3 to 4 years.
All these people I'll never see or miss in the slightest.
Seriously, who the hell cares about Television celebrities? Netflix makes plenty of shows with nobody's, and I actually prefer it that way.
Also, they're bragging about getting people like Oprah and people from Sony?
I'm kind of guessing the only purpose of this is to appeal to people who define themselves by how much of a fanboy they are (which is perfect for a lot of the Apple crowd)
Thanks for hunting down the link, I should have done that myself - I saw the names I listed mentioned in the video, so you can also find it there.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I'd say their big competition will be Disney streaming and Netflix and... Netflix despite their strong position I see in more of a longterm downward trend from here.
Why do you see Netflix heading downhill from here? I'd agree if Netflix were spending less on content but every year they spend quite a lot more, I think they are spending way more than Apple! To me the Netflix content just keeps getting better and broader. They are starting to put out movies that are seriously more interesting than most general release movies I see previews for.
After some thought, I don't think Apple is really even competing against Netflix or Amazon. To me what Apple is offering seems a lot more like HBO (right down to a Sesame Street offering!). I think Apple might be better off than HBO but I'm not sure as even with GOT ending, HBO has some strong properties left.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
So it's all gonna be touchy-feely spiritual bullshit?
Disclaimer: My GF loves the Oprah channel. I try to ignore it when she has that channel on.
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Call me when they have something interesting. I've heard enough me-too's.
I find TV boring. I like to read books, watch a movie sometimes. And I like to beat up nerds. Once I really did a number on one of those geek creeps, pulled his arm out of the socket and watched him flail it around until he passed out. He came to his senses only when I pissed on his head, and started to wail in a really disturbing way. Then I kicked his teeth in and stepped on his skull until he stopped moving. Dragged him down to the creek and left him there. Never seen again.
splinter of the market.... just another reason to say 'fuck it' and find 'alternative' sources.
subbing to a dozen different streaming services is fucking stupid. the whole idea... netflix's original concept... was to have everything in ONE PLACE, and inexpensively, with one sub. movies and television, domestic and imports.
it's almost as if they're TRYING to turn people away from streaming.. away from paying for multiple platforms.. and back to satellite and cable where it's ONE fucking bill... a high bill, but simple. you get shafted big by one company instead of sliced open to bleed to death by a dozen.
All programs will also be in mono, black and white and only in French language because, you know, as they say in France, le courage.
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I don't know if this is satire or lunacy, but it's still 10/10 entertaining.
If it wasn't annoying enough to have to subscribe to 4 different pay TV services to (legally) watch all the content want to watch, Apple and Disney will soon start their own streaming services hide their premium content behind.
We're soon going to get to the point where we're going to need an "everything" network that lets you sign up for multiple streaming services at once under a single account. You know, so you can watch all of your shows in once place.... like the Cable Company used to provide 10 years ago.
Hey, cable was initially ad-free. Heh. Wonder if this is a ploy, kind of like the GIF patent coming from nowhere after GIFs got popular?
From TFS: [...] "The new service, billed as a place for the "highest-quality storytelling," will be available in over 100 countries and released starting this fall through the Apple TV app." [...]
I've always preferred 'live' storytelling: https://www.yakimawa.gov/council/council-business-legislation/
The faint soft praise of /, editors towards technology and down voting medium warm comments turns /. into a half baked more tech is good pr machine.
Narrow thought patterns if you remove skeptical comments just because you do not agree with them.
Everyone is tired of more and more subscription services. However I do like the model of their news+ service: one subscription cost to 100s of magazines and the content producers are paid based on the amount of time their content is consumed. This model is what I would prefer as a consumer for video streaming services as well. I might well binge on GoT or westworld at HBO - but little else, similarly for other streaming channels.
From storytellers of the highest quality, like Reese Witherspoon, and um... Jennifer Aniston, and... um... Oprah.
Yep, look out GRRM and Joss Whedon and Ryan Coogler and Taika Waititi and Bryan Fuller and Noah Hawley, we got some real storytellers here now.
(OK Spielberg gets a pass, but for the good stuff like Close Encounters and E.T., not shit like Ready Player One)
As usual.
My guess is the early business models suggested cable subscriptions could actually support some or all channels through just generic subscriber fees.
But I think this lasted like 5 minutes, my first exposure to cable was in about 1982 and the stations all had commercials except for HBO.
Remember that actor you didn't want to bother with going to their movies 20 years ago? Well we have an amazing show for you. Meanwhile all the better shows are mostly supporting actors. Give me a Hugo Weaving or a Richard E Grant show over Ben Afflack any day.
It seems there are going to be a lot more streaming services by the end of the year, each with their own shows. While it's good that you can watch some great new shows online now, it's going to be annoying that each app has a different fee. Personally I think I'll wait and see which sort of shows each provider comes out with. It does seem like the Internet is going back to the days of Compuserve and AOL though. You will need to choose a subscription to get your web content.
Since this is coming on Apple TV, does this mean that Jennifer Aniston no longer thinks that Windows 95 is the way to go?
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Hilarious. Interesting how people like to complain about something unless they specifically benefit from it...
Oh boo hoo! Streaming services bad, make bad content! :( Oh HAI! Buy my streaming content on AppleTV! :)
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