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  • Apple TV+ is losing billions of dollars -- as planned and expected

    The problem with Apple TV+ isn't the content. I love Slow Horses, like some others, and there are others that I don't care for. and there are out and out failures, like "Time Bandits". The problem for me is that every iterative "improvement" to the Apple TV interface makes it harder to use. What was wrong with "Movies", "TV", "Music", etc. Very simple and intuitive. Now I have to hunt through Apple TV+ to search for movies and TV that used to pop up as offerings in the aforementioned tiles, pseudo Apps, or whatever they are. And, if I want to re-watch an old show that I've bought I have to go back to "Movies" and "TV".
    Then there's the fact that Apple never remembers what you've bought, so you get suggestions for stuff you've already watched and don't get reminders to buy series/sequels that you have bought. I suspect that some of the loss is fewer purchases of third party content, because they are trying to push Apple TV+ content. OK, but it shouldn't mean you have to sacrifice one for the other. 
    Then there's the lack of simplicity in the interface. sometimes the options/content is best accessed by scrolling down and left to right, sometimes by scrolling counterclockwise, etc., etc. What happened to simple and intuitive interfaces?
    Still, for Chernobyl, Slow Horses, and others in that class, I'll forgive them almost anything.
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