Apple to release TV+ streaming service
In the fall, Apple will offer a paid streaming service: Apple TV+, a TV service with its own programming. The company announced this on Monday during a presentation in California.
There where a lot of big names on podium, Steven Spielberg, actors Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carell ( The Office ) and Oprah Winfrey entered the stage to officially announce their collaboration with Apple. In addition, actors Jason Momoa ( Aquaman ), Alfre Woodard ( 12 Years A Slave ) and Kumail Nanjiani ( Silicon Valley ) are working on new series for Apple TV+.
Apple TV+ will be available in one hundred countries in the fall. It is not known how expensive a subscription to the streaming service will be. In addition, Apple is updating the regular Apple TV app, which now offers access to US paid TV channels and streaming services in the US, such as Hulu and Amazon Prime. Users get access to multiple channels through the Apple app that they can watch without advertising. In addition, Apple is moving the purchase of films and series via the iTunes Store to Apple TV and is making the Apple TV app available on smart TVs from Samsung, Sony and LG, and the set-top boxes Roku and Fire TV.
The service can add offers from HBO, Showtime and Stars . Netflix does not seem to among the supported streaming services. The new Apple TV will be available in more than 100 countries in the future. As of May, Macs, but also smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony and Vizio will be supported. In addition, the app will be available for Roku and FireTV.
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Apple wants to suck the soul out of everyone.
The one ring to rule them all.
These companies are looking to control too many services. We as consumers better pay attention.
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More obnoxiously expensive "Apple style" stuff? Ok.
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The exclusive content wars are coming to streaming services...... not sure if it's good or bad...probably both.
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I wish Disney would hurry up and release their streaming service so the sheer amount of competition and exclusive content is so overwhelming and expensive that it causes an outrage among consumers and puts an end to this crap. This is one of those things that's only going to continue to get worse until it gets so out-of-hand that it becomes a precedent where something prevents it from happening again.
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Outside of the US this will be severly crippled by licensing wars anyway. But we all knew that this was coming, I'm surprised they took that long tbh.