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Does anyone ever think about why Apple is involved in creating TV Series?

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Re: Does anyone ever think about why Apple is involved in creating TV Series?

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Post by samstave »

You do know that Steve Jobs bought the DeathStar Rendering System from Lucas' ILM back in the day because Lucas wasn't sure about running it, and Jobs bought it and started PIXAR.

He was there a lot during the rise of PIXAR - which effectively brought animated movies to the level they are today.

So, yeah - "Apple" DNA has been making entertainment for decades.

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Source: was a designer for the Lucas Presidio Campus - which is where ILM, LucasArts and LucasFilm consolidated (skywalker sound and big rock stayed where they are)

(then they wanted to build out animation studios in Singapore... dont know if they did though.)

Re: Does anyone ever think about why Apple is involved in creating TV Series?

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Post by OnuRC »

samstave wrote: post #11

You do know that Steve Jobs bought the DeathStar Rendering System from Lucas' ILM back in the day because Lucas wasn't sure about running it, and Jobs bought it and started PIXAR. He was there a lot during the rise of PIXAR - which effectively brought animated movies to the level they are today. So, yeah - "Apple" DNA has been making entertainment for decades. - Source: was a designer for the Lucas Presidio Campus -…

Great details but that only makes it true for Steve Jobs and not Apple at all? Steve Jobs were even out of Apple when he owned Pixar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar

Re: Does anyone ever think about why Apple is involved in creating TV Series?

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Post by samstave »

OnuRC wrote: post #12
samstave wrote: post #11

You do know that Steve Jobs bought the DeathStar Rendering System from Lucas' ILM back in the day because Lucas wasn't sure about running it, and Jobs bought it and started PIXAR. He was there a lot during the rise of PIXAR - which effectively brought animated movies to the level they are today. So, yeah - "Apple" DNA has been making entertainment for decades. - Source: was a designer for the Lucas Presidio Campus -…

Great details but that only makes it true for Steve Jobs and not Apple at all? Steve Jobs were even out of Apple when he owned Pixar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar

That's why I said ' "Apple" DNA '

Re: Does anyone ever think about why Apple is involved in creating TV Series?

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Post by wryoak »

I mean, I think Nvidia is hoping to get into games, not films, since they created that cloud gaming service.

As for Apple: no company is an X company any more because that’s not how you grow. You grow by becoming an X+Y+… company, often through acquisition. Luring people in with Y gets them to X and vice versa. As an example, open up Safari or Firefox and search google for anything and you’ll see an ad for Chrome, so you download Chrome then it suggests you sign up for and link your google account for quick access to your YouTube, email, calendar, and so on.

It’s honestly amazing a company like Netflix has stuck to so few lanes for so long.

Re: Does anyone ever think about why Apple is involved in creating TV Series?

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Post by throw9away6 »

OnuRC wrote: post #8
throw9away6 wrote: post #6

To build the Apple TV product and let me tell you the quality of content blows away Hulu or some of the other low tier services

It always starts like that, but once it scales to 1000 or more producers and directors, we get Netflix type quality content in 2023. Great movies and tv-series are really rare.

It’s not for lack of money though just Netflix chooses poorly and has no long term vision. Apple TV Is the new HBO. While Netflix originals barely make it past season 1

Re: Does anyone ever think about why Apple is involved in creating TV Series?

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Post by hititncommitit »

I haven’t. However, publicly held companies will general have quarterly / yearly reports [0] that would provide, I imagine, some insight into that decision.

It will almost certainly tell you they did so to generate income, but you might find some answers as to just how and why they think this will help them generate income from this activity.

I’m sorry I don’t have an answer, but I hope this resource can point you in the right direction (and I apologise if this is obvious to you- it isn’t to everyone).

0. https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=320193&owner=exclude

Re: Does anyone ever think about why Apple is involved in creating TV Series?

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Post by theRealMe »

It’s not dystopian. You are thinking up a conspiracy based on absolutely nothing, when a far simpler and more obvious answer exists(that they decided it would make them more money), and then calling it dystopian. You’re basically saying “here’s a crazy idea that could potentially have been a motivation. Isn’t it crazy that they did that?!?” Let’s try a couple more using your own thought process:

“McDonalds could have added child play places so that poor children would get exercise and be physically fit enough to join the military when they turn 18. Isn’t that dystopian?”

“Home builders might build homes with wood in order to remove natural resources from the planet to make Earth less of a target for alien invasion. Isn’t that dystopian?”

“Baskin Robins might have been created to make me fat. How dare they? Isn’t that dystopian?”

Re: Does anyone ever think about why Apple is involved in creating TV Series?

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Post by [deleted] »

theRealMe wrote: post #17

It’s not dystopian. You are thinking up a conspiracy based on absolutely nothing, when a far simpler and more obvious answer exists(that they decided it would make them more money), and then calling it dystopian. You’re basically saying “here’s a crazy idea that could potentially have been a motivation. Isn’t it crazy that they did that?!?” Let’s try a couple more using your own thought process: “McDonalds could have…

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Re: Does anyone ever think about why Apple is involved in creating TV Series?

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Post by dagmx »

throw9away6 wrote: post #15
OnuRC wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It always starts like that, but once it scales to 1000 or more producers and directors, we get Netflix type quality content in 2023. Great movies and tv-series are really rare.

It’s not for lack of money though just Netflix chooses poorly and has no long term vision. Apple TV Is the new HBO. While Netflix originals barely make it past season 1

Imho Netflix doesn’t choose poorly. They have a lot of crap because a lot of people like that stuff.

Check out how popular stuff like 90 day fiance is , or how Paul Blart Mall Cop 2 was Sony’s biggest hit the year it came out.

We equate quality with being desirable for consumption, but media is so subjective and I’d hazard the vast vast majority of people have a lot of guilty pleasure trash shows they watch regularly.

Netflix knows this so has a lot of crumminess amongst its great shows to reflect exactly what their numbers show them.

Re: Does anyone ever think about why Apple is involved in creating TV Series?

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Post by dagmx »

samstave wrote: post #11

You do know that Steve Jobs bought the DeathStar Rendering System from Lucas' ILM back in the day because Lucas wasn't sure about running it, and Jobs bought it and started PIXAR. He was there a lot during the rise of PIXAR - which effectively brought animated movies to the level they are today. So, yeah - "Apple" DNA has been making entertainment for decades. - Source: was a designer for the Lucas Presidio Campus -…

They did open Lucasfilm Singapore and did quite a bit of work there over the years, including the ill fated Strange Magic.

Coincidentally, they just announced last week that they’re shutting it down.

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