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Apple TV+, With Shows From Spielberg, Oprah and J.J. Abrams, is Coming This Fall (cnet.com) 101

Posted by msmash from the major-push dept.
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.
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Apple TV+, With Shows From Spielberg, Oprah and J.J. Abrams, is Coming This Fall

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  • Comment removed (Score:3)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Monday March 25, 2019 @03:21PM (#58332732)
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    • Nope, not at all (Score:5, Informative)

      by SuperKendall ( 25149 ) on Monday March 25, 2019 @03:27PM (#58332770)

      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.

      • Comment removed based on user account deletion
        • Hm, so no Android TV? Meh. I like the Apple TV fine, but it is useless for playing locally stored content, and I've replaced my Apple TVs with nVidia Shields which do everything rather well.

          • I like the Apple TV fine, but it is useless for playing locally stored content...

            That's what AirPlay is for, and that runs only on Apple TV.

        • 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.

      • >"So you'll be able to see this content on pretty much anything (also iOS)."

        Except the billions of TV's that never get a firmware update for it.
        And millions of Linux-running laptops/desktops/myth boxes/etc.
        And, as you pointed out, maybe not the billions of Android devices.

        No mention of TiVo, either.

      • That's a huge step in the right direction for Apple. They make the games Google and Amazon play against each other seem almost tame.

        Apple needs a lot more interoperability if they want to stay relevant, do it's good that they're starting to try.

  • 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 pr

    • 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. Amazon should be a contender and things may change but for now just those two primarily. If they start bundling the TV service free with 3 months when purchasing hardware, seems like it could go well for them.

      • 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 gene

    • Just think if they had bought Pixar from Jobs instead of Disney.

    • with both Netflix and Amazon hammering out new shows at a prodigious rate.

      I'd be happier if Apple would focus on existing stuff (eg all from 1966). New Netflix shows proliferate at a prodigious rate. But a lot of them are just based on copy-paste recipes aimed for lasting as long as possible. After only 3 episodes, you know the pattern.

  • not to update IOS, once they make AppleTV part of it.

    I just wish I could disable the "pending update" notifications.

  • Accessible, how? (Score:3)

    by OneHundredAndTen ( 1523865 ) on Monday March 25, 2019 @03:27PM (#58332772)
    If it forces you to have Apple hardware/software then include me out.

  • Even Spielberg, eh? (Score:3)

    by dbrueck ( 1872018 ) on Monday March 25, 2019 @03:31PM (#58332806)

    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)

  • Welcome to The Apple Channel
    Welcome to The Microsoft Channel
    Welcome to The Google Channel
    later...
    Welcome to The Apple Country
    Welcome to The Microsoft Country
    Welcome to The Google Country
    later...
    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

    • Welcome to The Apple Channel
      Welcome to The Microsoft Channel
      Welcome to The Google Channel
      Seriously, where does this stop.

      It stops where

      Welcome to The OnlyOneRemains Channel

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by rtb61 ( 674572 )

        There is profound difference between the three.

        Apple is trying to sell the country club approach and controlled environment you can enter but they have to ensure you can always leave.

        M$ is trying to force full control, to give them the right to monitor, control and censor your digital environment and to lock you.

        Google seeks the exact same thing as M$, just down all sneekily and behind your back, doing the exact same thing that M$ do, just not in your face about jamming a probe up you butt and monitoring

  • 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.

  • 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 th

  • All these people I'll never see or miss in the slightest.

  • 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.

  • Courage (Score:4, Funny)

    by ruddk ( 5153113 ) on Monday March 25, 2019 @06:02PM (#58333448)

    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.

  • 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 a

    • wait, you actually prefer giving Netflix a monopoly on content so that they can jack the prices to cable co levels or even higher?

      • In what way does Netflix have a monopoly on content? The main reason they would have to raise prices is that the content companies charge Netflix ever increasing rates for licensing.

        • It isn't. Thanks to competitors such as Disney, Amazon, Apple... you know, all those you just criticized for trying to compete with Netflix.

          • So are you now arguing that Netflix doesn’t have a monopoly on things it doesn’t own? Also where and when criticized others for trying to compete with Netflix?

            • Sorry, it was not you but the OP (supremebob) who did complain that new competitors were trying to compete with Netflix, as if it was a bad thing.
              What I am saying is we should be thankful Netflix doesn't have a monopoly. The implication is yes, that we have to subscribe to various services to get all content but this is a good thing. If things went the way the OP wanted them too, Netflix WOULD have a monopoly. I never said it was currently the case.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Tom ( 5839674 )

      I believe Apple i going to try being the Everything Streaming Service.

      Think Internet Cable TV, with bundled content or pick-ur-own (at higher cost) bundles.

      They have already made deals to carry content from other streaming services. Why not subscribe from 1 place for all your streaming, at a bundled discount.

      -T-

  • 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.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Tom ( 5839674 )

      Canada had at least two mutli-magazine/newspaper subscription services. They did not survive, because not enough people reads newspaper and magazines on tablets and cellphones.

      If content producers are paid based on the amount of time their content is consumed, expect the number of magazines to go down rapidly. A lot will disappear off the service in the first year, unless this is not their only revenue stream, and perhaps the cost of staying on Apples system is low. Eventually though... if readership does n

  • 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.

  • 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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