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  • 'Metallica' immersive experience for Apple Vision Pro will be available on March 14

    macinscottmacinscott
    This is exactly where I think Apple should be focussing its Vision Pro efforts - on unique content.

    With the current size and weight, the Vision Pro is an accessory that users will comfortably wear for an hour or two per day. This makes it the perfect device to consume content such as movies, concerts or sporting events in ways that traditional devices can't match.

    I also think this approach would be key to growing the Vision Pro's user base. Apple should partner with many top musicians and sports teams to buy tickets to single events or season passes to an entire season or concert tour. Metallica is more my speed, but imagine the number of Vision Pros Apple could sell if it offered the ability for Swifties to "attend" Taylor Swifts's Eras tour last year! My daughter flew to Paris for her concert since it was actually cheaper to go to Europe than buy tickets on the resale market stateside. I'll save the Ticketmaster monopoly and criminal resale ticket market in the US for another discussion.

    Apple could sell a single viewing of an artist performing at any date from their tour for a lower price, and allow repeated viewing for a higher price. With the same single and repeated viewing pricing model for the concert tour, where artists often have different opening acts or surprise guests in addition to different set lists. 
    neoncatwatto_cobra

  • More M4: When the Mac will get upgraded with the latest Apple Silicon

    macinscottmacinscott
    If anything, the lower sales volume of the Mac Studio and Mac Pro should make those machines among the first to get the new M4 chips. What does it say to professionals when the entry level product lines consistently get the newest technology? I understand if the Max, Ultra or rumored Extreme versions of the M4 aren't ready yet, but Apple should at the very least release a M4 and M4 Pro Mac mini as soon as possible. Those aren't high sellers either so they wouldn't cannibalize too many of the M4 chips from other devices.

    It just becomes problematic when an iPad Pro has a M4 chip and other prosumer and professional Macs are behind. It also creates confusion in the marketplace because many buyers won't know that a M2 Max is faster than a M4 chip. They will just assume the higher number means better.
    williamlondondanoxkeithwAlex1Njrfunklibertyandfreemacikewatto_cobra

  • Elon Musk mulling offer to buy Twitter from shareholders for $46.5B

    macinscottmacinscott
    @rotateleftbyte, why do you "hope he fails miserably"? Because he's an advocate for free speech? Because he doesn't agree with the arbitrary and biased way Twitter (and other social media companies) censor the opinions of those often on the other side of the political spectrum? 

    I get it. Musk's personality can be off-putting. But should social media companies, which are the primary source for news for the majority of the population, be able to decide which views are allowed to be expressed, and which ones aren't? Should they be able to make stories disappear (Hunter Biden's laptop) if they deem it to be detrimental to their cause? And should there be no repercussions when posts flagged as fake news actually turn out to be true, while what has been pushed as the narrative is actually false?

    Americans should be extremely concerned when the actions of Big Tech and our own government begin to mirror those of totalitarian regimes. And that is exactly what has been happening. I'll take free speech any day over controlled speech. I want opinions challenged. I want public discourse and debate. I want to hear all sides and draw my own conclusions. Don't you? 
    h4y3smobirdbluefire1socalbriangrandact73williamlondonbyronl

  • Apple releases new teaser trailer for Apple TV+ show 'Servant'

    macinscottmacinscott
    I look at Apple+ as an incentive by Apple to remain in their ecosystem and buy new Apple products each year.

    If you can stack free years of service for every device that qualifies, I'll never have to pay for the service as long as Apple continues this promotion. As a family of four, with 4 iPhones, 1 iPad, 2 iMacs, 2 MacBook Pros and 1 Apple TV, I'll always be upgrading at least one product per year.

    And I'm not going to complain about free. So far, only "For All Mankind" has my interest, but I'll give several others a shot to see if they're worth watching.
    15ngcs1

  • Disney+ will stream to Apple TV, iPhone, iPad at launch - but not to Amazon Fire

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    Currently, Netflix stands to lose the most from Disney taking the loss leader approach for the launch of Disney+. And this comes on the heels of Netflix losing popular series such as Friends and The Office, as well as any further licensing of Disney, Marvel and Star Wars content.

    Content holds all the value which is why Apple, Disney, Netflix, Amazon and others are pouring BILLIONS into original content. Everyone is banking on coming up with the next must-see series like Game of Thrones or Stranger Things to acquire subscribers.

    After the dust settles in a few years, we'll likely see several streaming services shuttered and merges/acquisitions of others for content. 

    In the end, I hope we end up getting something similar for tv that iTunes/Apple Music was for music - one store where you can get everything for a standard price (X dollars/episode or season) or a streaming option that pays the content providers a percentage of the monthly fee based on what you actually watch.
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