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Apple has a TV on demand?
Yeah it launched in November I think. It had a few splashy series with big names, but not much content. I loved The Morning Show, but nothing else really grabbed my interest except Dickinson, which I enjoyed. There's just not much there, unlike Disney+, which has a fuckton of content.Apple has a TV on demand?
Tell that to the investors if Apple TV+ is not in the black in the next few years.For a company worth $1,172 billion, this is small potatoes
Newer smart tvs generally have the apps for them. You can also buy a Roku or FireTV (or AppleTV) to plug into your tv to have access to the viewing apps as well. You don't have to watch on a computer.There are only so many streaming services that people are going to be willing to pay for. We have Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, CBS Steaming, Disney +. I mean come on - you could completely cut out cable tv - and just get all of this shit and guess what? It's cheaper to keep cable.
Not to mention how the fuck do we watch some of this stuff? I don't want to watch on my phone, Ipad, or computer. I want it on my TV. But, of course, I can't get Apple TV on my Yuku - similarly for Disney+. I want this shit on my puny little 37 inch tv without having to connect my computer to the TV.
I do have a Ruku but it is pretty old, and probably needs to be replaced. But when I tried to find AppleTV on it - it said it wasn't available. Maybe that was a yet....Newer smart tvs generally have the apps for them. You can also buy a Roku or FireTV (or AppleTV) to plug into your tv to have access to the viewing apps as well. You don't have to watch on a computer.
Yeesh. My tv is 26".I want this shit on my puny little 37 inch tv without having to connect my computer to the TV.
Throw away TVs? If you don't couple your "Smart" TV with something open source and updatable like a Raspberry it will be obsolete in 5 years ....Newer smart tvs generally have the apps for them. You can also buy a Roku or FireTV (or AppleTV) to plug into your tv to have access to the viewing apps as well. You don't have to watch on a computer.
I would not use the financial value of a company as main dimension to measure that, but instead yearly revenue&profit, liquidity plus financial assets instead.So Apple is putting in $6 billion on streaming. Meanwhile Netflix is spending $17.4 billion on content this year, and Disney spent over $8 billion to buy Marvel and Lucasfilm (Star Wars). Then they spent billions more to produce films and TV series for those universes. For a company worth $1,172 billion, this is small potatoes