Notsofast

rotateleftbyte said:

Apart from Imelda Staunton, US audiences will have never heard of the other two actors mentioned above.

Hardly a recepie for success is it?

Where is the US Star? (or Starlet?)

Are the three brits going to play baddies?

{Yes I know that I'm stereotyping}

This may play well here in the UK (if it is shown on BBC and not on some Pay-per-View channel) but unless the script is top notch it may well struggle.

Only time will tell eh?

That's not how audiences are built.   First, the BBC brand itself is very popular in the US, but more importantly, it's the advertising and other promotions that play a major role in most successful shows as there aren't enough blockbuster stars that everyone knows to go around.  Most of the most successful shows in America have been populated primarily with actors who weren't well known to most of the American audience at the time,  and certainly weren't stars, e.g., Breaking Bad, the Office, Seinfeld, etc.

This is why Spotify is in such trouble, and their only long term hope is to get acquired.  Despite people trying to defend their music streaming service as somehow superior, it is essentially a "commoditized" business where the primary differentiator for most people is price. Spotify would lose half its 200 Million subscribers who get it for free if they had to start paying, ditto with Amazon.  Apple Music has the most tracks and is in the most countries, but at the end of the day, 99% of what anyone wants is on every music service.

Problem for Spotify is that Amazon, Apple, and Google can leverage their music services to add value to their other revenue streams, e.g., Amazon uses it to make their incrreasing Prime Membership fees more palatable.   Spotify has lost hundreds of millions but it can't raise prices in a "commoditized" industry to offset those costs. That's why it is desperately trying to get exclusive podcasts, a likely fail in an effort to build another revenue stream. It's also why Spotify hurts artists by paying them about half of what Apple does, and why Spotify is desperately trying to use governments to go after Apple to slow down competition until it can be sold.  I wonder what their attack will be against Amazon??

"Come under fire." LOL. Apple's hundreds of millions of customers love the idea. Most developers like it. But I guess a few complainers constitutes "come under fire" ????

proline said:

I’ll leave it to DED to write thousands of words praising an unannounced feature that may or may not see the final release as an Android killer. 

Now time to re-read his piece about street view being creepy and flyover being the next big thing. That one is always good for laughs. 

Huh??  Just because Apple didn't announce it in a press release doesn't mean a thing.  The feature is in the Beta and most reviewers have recognized it as ingenious, which it is.  Also, you are bit confused about what it means to be a "killer" of another product.  Apple can't make an "Android killer." You don't use that term to refer to the dominant product squashing the inferior one.   The iPhone has over 90% of the entire cell phone industry profits and dominates every aspect of the premium smart phone market that every Android manufacturer is trying to come up with the "iPhone killer,"  not the other way around.  LOL. 

wizard69 said:

entropys said:

Reminds of the eighties when those Japanese executives decided they wanted to get into Hollywood. 

Put it me in the half who hates Apple making content. Competing with their customers.

It isn’t so much Apple making content but rather Apple not knowing how to work with content creators! Apple could easily derive movie scripts from some of the writers that have created E-Books over the years.  The problem is one needs $$$$, lots of $$$$ really, to produce a movie from start to finish vs writing a book that is often done by a single person with no budget.  I kinda see this as Apple financing production not creating content.  

Now given all of that I'm not sure if Apple even has the right people in place to pick a project to throw money at.  In the end they need to select more winners than losers.   They literally have two dragons to slay, one is finding the right content and the other is finding the right team to put that to film.  We have all seen rehashed content where one version of a myth comes out far better on the big screen than another.  

LOL--Apple's video team doesn't know how to work with content creators?  Time to read up on what's been going on so you can relax.  Apple is going all in and has hired the top people in the industry to work for Apple Video, from Paramount, Sony Pictures, Disney, Amazon Video, Hulu, and Netflix, etc., including the folks who have made lots of the most highly acclaimed movies and television series, such as Breaking Bad, The Shield, etc.