{"id":16910,"date":"2017-01-12T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T21:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16910"},"modified":"2017-01-13T13:27:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:27:57","slug":"apple-is-becoming-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/12\/apple-is-becoming-hbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Is Becoming HBO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shira Ovide<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Apple is making the rounds in Hollywood, seeking to buy high-quality original TV series and perhaps movies. The idea is to supplement the Apple Music streaming song service with more digital video, the Wall Street Journal reported<\/a> on Thursday. Think of Apple creating shows with similar quality and buzz to Netflix’s series “Stranger Things” but available only to subscribers who pay $10 a month for Apple Music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Mitchel Broussard<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Apple executives have told Hollywood that the new original content will launch by the end of 2017, according to the new report. In terms of specific genres, HBO’s Westworld<\/em> and Netflix’s Stranger Things<\/em> were both used as comparisons for what Apple is aiming to produce on Apple Music. These proposed series and movies “don’t have any particular relationship to music,” unlike Carpool Karaoke<\/em> and Vital Signs<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Zac Cichy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Not that Sony is a bad company. But I think we could all agree that Apple becoming Sony would be very bad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

We live in an age where there is more good video content available than one could reasonably watch. But there’s only one good combination of a desktop OS and hardware, and it’s being neglected. Apple doesn’t have the resources and attention to make sure that PDF files work<\/a> or that their customers have a good Wi-Fi experience<\/a>. \nAnd of course there’s plenty of iOS and cloud work to do, too. TV and movie content seems like an unnecessary distraction. Apple should focus on the things that only they can do.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2017-01-13): Dan Moren<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Granted, that might mean that those content providers are less enthusiastic about doing business with Apple, especially since their own shows would presumably take a backseat to Apple’s prominent marketing of its in-house efforts, such as in the new TV app that’s now front-and-center on Apple’s set-top box.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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