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  • Warner Bros exec JP Richards named Apple TV+ head of marketing strategy

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    thrang said:
    Could Apple buy a major theater chain, reinvent them as Apple Centers for the Arts & Technology and show theatrical films, concerts, TED-like talks, standup. etc? Or would there be antitrust issues?

    The film release strategy could be thirty to forty-five days in their theaters, followed by migration to Apple TV as exclusive content.

    This will be of high interest to major film makers who are increasingly untrustworthy of studios/streamers diminishing the theatrical experience (WB being the latest), and perhaps would be seen to be the best of both worlds for many of them to move to production deals with Apple. So the long term play here is content ownership, even though it would be a loss at the start. I'm guessing AMC is (relatively) dirt cheap now...

    Apple could integrate some level of interactive or pre/post event services/content into the experiences, and have technology showcases in most or all of the locations to showcase their products and related talent, "behind the curtain" educational/informational pods, etc. They could offer an outlet for local schools and colleges to put on performances and art showcases.

    Remember, Apple is at the intersection of ...



    (ok, not precisely a liberal arts play, but you get the drift...)

    I actually love this idea. They wouldn’t even need to run them as theatres. They’d have theatres, but they’d also be places where they could do classes, have 1 on 1 appointments, sell iPhones, etc. 

    My major concern with this though, is what kind of Arts would they be doing? Granted with TV+ Apple is actually producing content. But previously they liked to keep an almost Disney like vibe. So would it lean more toward ballet, classical, or folk where the crowds aren’t rowdy, or would they have rock and hardcore shows?

    I feel like the idea is fun in concept but the more I think about it the more I think it would open Apple up to criticism or potential legal problems. (Somebody crowd surfs at a concert, breaks their neck, Apple is a huge lawsuit target.)

    also theatres are a massive commitment for rent. They might get the building cheap, but making money in it post pandemic (assuming there is a post pandemic) might not be a sure enough bet for them to take a bite. 
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  • Second-generation AirPods Pro, new iPhone SE could see April launch

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    Find it a little hard to believe that they’d release another iPhone SE so soon. The A13 is still a very capable chip.

    only reason I could see was if the new Touch ID part in the Air 4 was good to go for more units. They could make an iPhone 11 SE that had an A14 with Touch ID, same camera system as the 11 but with a straight up LCD? But I feel like that would really confuse the market. And it wouldn’t be that low cost either. 
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  • Elon Musk says Apple CEO Tim Cook refused meeting to discuss acquiring Tesla

    davidmalcolmdavidmalcolm
    Half of Tesla’s value at any given time is related to Musk. The only reason to acquire Tesla for Apple would be if they wanted Musk as the next CEO of Apple, and I think they’d be crazy to want that. 

    If anything I think Elon would have been offering to sell to Apple in the hopes that he could replace Tim as CEO, and Tim is not that naive. Musk is not the sort of person who works well reporting to others. 

    Apple got rid of Forestall who as far as I can tell is easily more flat out brilliant than Musk, because Forestall didn’t get along with other people on the exec team. If they didn’t keep Forestall, there’s no way they’d bring on Musk. 
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  • Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher updated for Apple Silicon & macOS Big Sur

    davidmalcolmdavidmalcolm
    I moved away from Adobe years ago and love Affinity. These apps fly doing tasks that Adobe just chugged on, and that’s on an Intel Mac. On the iPad with Metal and a good GPU they’re really impressive, can’t wait to try them on an Apple Si Mac :)
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  • Zuckerberg: Apple's ad-tracking block will impair COVID-19 economic recovery

    davidmalcolmdavidmalcolm
    It seems crazy that Apple has to hold off on. We features to protect users’ privacy, when the major company it will hurt is the one who has turned political discourse in the world into a childish game of shouting stupid crap across a room. No other company has damaged civil discourse the way Facebook has. 
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