LOL...good luck trying to find something relatively new and relatively good for a "slashed price" in 4K. For example, the first 8 movies shown in the 'Popular Movies' section of 'Rent or Buy' don't even offer a 4K version for download, much less a bargain price.
These prices explain piracy. Treat people fairly and they treat you fairly. Treat people like idiots and they won’t accept, nor should they. Like the FBI piracy stages on BDs. If you treat people like garbage you get what’s coming to you. The music industry regard steaming is leagues ahead of Hollywood in this regard. $5 per month for a student. That’s how you stop them stealing. Give them high quality content at the tips of their fingers at an enticing and fair value. This is why Netflix is where it’s at: fair monthly price without ads. Other players are trying to swim without arms. Apple has no clue what it’s doing in this regard. Apple should be Netflix right now. They were asleep at the wheel regarding where TV/Movie streaming has been headed for years. And they are asleep re Apple TV too. It should have a surperb first-party dedicated gaming controller with physical buttons—it should be considered a great console by the average consumer. It should offer a Netflix like plan. The hardware should be priced far less. And it should have a decent regular remote. Tone deaf. The UI is pretty decent, but the UI is only one leg on a very wobbly stool. Where Apple TV is at now it should have been at 5 years ago. It should be 5 years along from where it is now with all the obvious areas where it falls well short sewn up.
I don't WANT streaming. I want to purchase and store my content locally.
These prices explain piracy. Treat people fairly and they treat you fairly. Treat people like idiots and they won’t accept, nor should they. Like the FBI piracy stages on BDs. If you treat people like garbage you get what’s coming to you. The music industry regard steaming is leagues ahead of Hollywood in this regard. $5 per month for a student. That’s how you stop them stealing. Give them high quality content at the tips of their fingers at an enticing and fair value. This is why Netflix is where it’s at: fair monthly price without ads. Other players are trying to swim without arms. Apple has no clue what it’s doing in this regard. Apple should be Netflix right now. They were asleep at the wheel regarding where TV/Movie streaming has been headed for years. And they are asleep re Apple TV too. It should have a surperb first-party dedicated gaming controller with physical buttons—it should be considered a great console by the average consumer. It should offer a Netflix like plan. The hardware should be priced far less. And it should have a decent regular remote. Tone deaf. The UI is pretty decent, but the UI is only one leg on a very wobbly stool. Where Apple TV is at now it should have been at 5 years ago. It should be 5 years along from where it is now with all the obvious areas where it falls well short sewn up.
Wait, why should Apple be Netflix? Apple makes insane profit selling hardware is its ecosystem. Netflix makes a smaller amount of money streaming content to anybody. Why does Apple need to be Netflix?
I mean, and I figured it was obvious, that the position and mindshare Netflix has regarding video streaming in the world today should be Apple's position. Apple didn't see it coming the way it did and they should. I blame Cue, but not entirely. As regarding Apple's profit as a company. It has nothing to do with this conversation. If an oil company was making twice the profit of Apple and oil supplies were plentiful for centuries to come I'd still not want Apple to be an oil company. Quit thinking like a shareholder, it ruins most design and product conversations and doesn't interest me in the least. As Gruber said recently and I agree, most people think the ATV Remote is Ok, someone people hate it and he doesn't personally know anyone who loves it: that's a series product design problem. People love AirPods because they were well conceived and well executed, people think the opposite of that remote for obvious reason—you'd best not defend Apple to legit criticism. It only makes you sound either gullible or a shareholder and either are nothing to do with product design. Gawd....
And they say Apple is the one taking people to the cleaner...
When Amazon has killed most of retail, you'll see how "good" Amazon is.
I already find they're worse than Alibaba/Aliexpress which is not even based around here on price
basically they're using their other services as enticement for not so hot prices.
Of course Amazon is going to be worse on price than the Chinese competitors. For one it won't take a month for the product to arrive, and when it does it will be authentic and not some knockoff.
WRONG. Example: fake solar glasses. Many were being shipped directly from Amazon warehouses.
So if Amazon sold fake solar glasses that could PERMANANTLY blind you, what's stopping them from selling other less dangerous fake goods? Nothing at all.
Amazon takes close to ZERO reponsibility for fake goods sold on their site and shipped from their warehouses. Shameful.
If individually notifying every customer who bought a pair not to use them for eclipse viewing, pulling all existing stock as soon as there was an inkling that the supplier may not have complied with ISO standards despite marking the glasses as such, and automatically refunding every purchaser is your example of taking "close to zero responsibility for fake goods" I think you could have found a better one. In this case IMO Amazon took full responsibility as they should have.
FWIW policing 10's of millions of products ranging from media to software to electronics to home goods to vehicle repair items, many shipped directly from vendors rather than Amazon warehouses, has got to be a near-impossible task. Heck Apple and Google have problems keeping fake or useless apps out or their stores, and Apple claims to vet every one of them.
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FWIW policing 10's of millions of products ranging from media to software to electronics to home goods to vehicle repair items, many shipped directly from vendors rather than Amazon warehouses, has got to be a near-impossible task. Heck Apple and Google have problems keeping fake or useless apps out or their stores, and Apple claims to vet every one of them.