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davgreg said:

The Hip-Hop audio they stream is more offensive than anything on HBO, Showtime or Netflix.

Apple should get out of- and stay out of- content.

Apple are total hypocrites. They are happy to peddle sexist, violent, misogynistic, and homophobic audio content on Apple Music all day long. Not to mention all the violent video games in the App Store...

But heaven forbid one of their upcoming snooze fest TV shows has a little bit of violence or shows a boob. 

I ageee. They should not get into content. Build great devices. Write great software. Stay focused. Unfortunately that’s not Apple anymore. 

Rayz2016 said:

badmonk said:

As an Apple investor, high-priest and fan-boy, I am concerned.  To make high quality media requires courage and a willness to push the envelope.

If you think nudity and violence is the only way to push the envelope then you need to see better movies. 

Nudity and violence are part of life. They aren’t required to push the envelope, but they are often part of good story telling. Apple has become such a nanny. Writers and directors should be able to tell their stories without some big nanny company censoring their art.  If Apple demands boring, safe, offensive to no one content, very few people are going to want to work with them and even fewer are going to subscribe to whatever service they offer. 

badmonk said:

As an Apple investor, high-priest and fan-boy, I am concerned.  To make high quality media requires courage and a willness to push the envelope.

Disney is the lone-exception to this rule, but their craft is heavily scripted, produced and massaged over long periods of time.  That sounds like Apple but it is much much more difficult to do durable sanitized media well.

I think everyone here saying “it works for Disney” doesn’t know anything about Disney. They release tons of content with violence and nudity under their other brands. Touchstone Pictures. Dimension Film, which releases an endless stream of slasher movies, was owned by Disney until recently. Their old Hollywood Pictures brand released numerous violent horror and action films. They used to own Miramax. Etc. 

Disney is one of the biggest distributors of violent content and nudity in film. 

I’m not a fan of the Watch UI and this just seems way too cluttered and fiddley. 

Another thing to keep in mind is how these companies store your data and who has access to it. Dropbox, for example, allows certain employees to access your data under certain circumstances. In other words, while your data might be encrypted, they still hold the keys. I’m not sure about the other services mentioned, including iCloud Drive, but buyer beware. Your data is probably not 100% secure and private with any of these services.  The only service I know of that is 100% zero knowledge is SpiderOak. You should include them in your list, as well as looking into the encryption (when the data is both in transit and at rest on the servers) policies of each company. Apple touts privacy but I have yet to read anything that suggests iCloud Drive is a zero knowledge solution like SpiderOak.