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Apple tends to play a long game. When Apple launched a smart watch I wondered what the point was. Now I have an Apple Watch (Gen. 4) that I regard as indispensable. The launch Vision Pro is absolutely not a viable consumer product. It does a lot of …
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By future-proofing products, what Apple has secured is brand loyalty. If I buy a smart phone today and get more than four years of service out of it, I'm quite happy to buy another one. Apple has a massive collection of consumers out there who can p…
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What never works is a set-up designed to generate revenue with no discernible advantage offered to the end user. GM wants to collect a subscription and so it sees fit to take away a subscription-free set-up and replace it with an arrangement that fo…
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If the plan is to offer a lower-cost Apple TV+ with ads and the current offering at the current price, this I’m fine with. If Apple copies Prime and starts charging extra to take out ads, shame on Apple. When I hear complaints from those who don’t w…
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Even if prestige titles do not generate much of a profit, if you can recoup a lot of your cost and gain the prestige of being associated with a first-rate effort like Killers of the Flower Moon, that’s a big win. It makes sense to recover as much of…
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StrangeDays said: It is so annoying they aren't releasing their own films to the ATV platform as a first-class citizen. HBO Max did this w/ their films and I loved it. Theaters kinda suck these days (the people) compared to pretty good home t…
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It surprises me that since the battery was put into a separate unit more of the electronics involved hasn’t been incorporated into the external supplemental unit. Doing so would, I would imagine, result in a lighter headset and that would improve th…
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Apple’s approach of focusing on original content over paying for a lot of legacy content is going to work but it takes time to build out a body of work. COVID and strikes have slowed this process down but even so, Apple is doing an excellent job of …
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StrangeDays said: lame. The point of paying for a streaming service is for access. Making existing customers go last is taking them for granted If content producers can’t make a profit, it causes them to produce more reluctantly. If Apple…
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ApplePoor said: To keep just the three parts of the Apple One bundle I actually use would cost more with their individual prices than the complete bundle. Guess it depends on which three items one is interested in. In my case, it’s Apple T…
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badmonk said: I think people misunderstand what Apple (& also Amazon) is selling here. it isn’t AppleTV, it’s Apple One where AppleTV is seen as a loss leader for a bundle that includes non-TV offerings. In my case, I am getting dependa…
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Want to reduce churn then lower the cost of signing up for a full year. Ad-supported options also work. Netflix here in Canada costs $5.99 a month ad-supported and at that price keeping it year-round makes a lot of sense. Paramount+ is the one strea…
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The price of a product is one of the critical elements. It wasn’t that Apple launched a tablet back when the iPad was introduced. It wasn’t the first tablet. It was the first tablet priced to become a product millions would flock to. If Apple had la…
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Make that 40 hours (2,400 minutes).
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In a world in which we have in excess of 2,400 hours of Gilligan’s Island in the bank, a couple of hours from a brilliant director about a significant topic doesn’t seem at all like a waste of time.
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igorsky said: davebarnes said: Colors. Really? I had to remove my case to see what color my iPhone 11 Pro is. Who does not use a case? What a ridiculous comment. Lots of people don’t use cases. Some people use clear cases.
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Ad-supported tiers are the only way the streamers are going to be viable with so many of them now offered. Let’s face it, the amount any of us are willing to pay for all the streaming available has a ceiling. We’re simply not going to keep paying mo…
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What needs to be kept in mind is that when Apple works on a product, even if that product ends up not being produced, the innovation that results from working on said product becomes an asset to Apple that can be applied to other projects. As a resu…
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If you downgrade a product like this, you destroy the characteristics that allow it to stand out. It’s far more likely that what we will see is that the launch version of the Apple Vision will be retained at a reduced price when its updated version …
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saarek said: I’ll never understand why the pricing gulf between ad supported and ad free is so high. Surely they are not being paid $8.50 a month per user for ads that, generally speaking, people either just mute or walk away from? Conside…