Article is paywalled for me. Are these streaming services going to be usable with non-Apple devices?
Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
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Re: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
#112One interesting question is how viable this can be if they continue their strategy of differentiation through privacy. Doing "services" for people intrinsically means knowing about them. What they watch, what they read, what they listen to, what they need, who they are. The more you know, the better you can "service" them. By pursuing this path they may quickly find themselves sucked into a slipperly slope that puts…
Back when iAd was a thing, there were articles about how upset advertisers were that Apple's iAd wouldn't let them plug directly into an Apple customer's music and video store purchase history.
>Apple has a lot of knowledge regarding its users,but what it doesn’t do with that data is share it with advertisers very freely. That makes Madison Avenue very mad.
>rather than offering a cookie-based ad-tracking and targeting mechanism, it essentially requires partners to tell it what kind of audience it needs to reach, and then trust that Apple will handle the rest, AdAge says. And it’s well worth noting that Apple prioritizes customer privacy here over a big potential upside in ad revenue.
>what it doesn’t do is hand over the keys to all that data and let advertisers plug into it directly with their own data-mining and targeting software. That’s not standard for the ad industry and that’s likely the reason a few Madison Avenue feathers are ruffled over their approach.
https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/advertisers-not-thrilled-w...
I'm not sure why you think that Apple has had a change of heart since then, especially given their recent decision that these sort of privacy protecting policies provide Apple a competitive advantage.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
They could even bundle in a MacBook, iPad, and watch at a higher price tier so that the hard core Apple fans could pay a single monthly subscription fee and always have the latest model of every device.
I wonder if a subscription fee for hardware would appeal to businesses.
I wonder what the depreciation tax differences would be? For us we buy hardware in the 'on' years (our business runs in 2 year cycles)
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anecdote of one: I have all three as well. As the days go by, I find myself questioning if Netflix is still worth it as I'm not necessarily a big fan of a lot of their original content and think HBO seems to do a better job in licensing the movies I'm interested in (to say nothing of their amazing original content). I think at this point I only keep Netflix around out of habit as it's something I share with family an…
HBO has some big-ticket items, but Netflix is more consistent in dropping new series for me to try. It's still my go-to place for content since there's more than I have time to watch. I just looked up their list of original content[1] for refresh my mind, and quite a few were extremely good in my opinion. - House of Cards: I only got a little into the second season before I got busy, but what I saw was high quality a…
Netflix is much more bang for your buck. But I think HBO has a much better signal to noise ratio. Also HBO has some all time classics, which netflix lacks. I think Netflix has a lot of B+/A-, but it's missing an A or A+.
A lot of Netlix's new content is downright bad.
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#115> The company would collect these monthly fees, then divide up the revenue between developers based on how much time users spend playing their games Sounds terrible for short indie games and good for long grindy games. That's not a future I want for my gaming. Not that I am an apple customer in the first place but hopefully this won't affect what is delivered on the other platforms.
Most of the long, grindy AAA games are on Windows only, so really, not much worries there. I have yet to see a game listed in the App Store that wasn't also on Steam, so I'm not worried about that either. Apple may be good at many things, but games is not one of them. There's not enough bang for your buck on the Mac platform when it comes to gaming and you can't easily and cheaply mix-n-match your hardware like you c…
I'm doing my PC gaming exclusively in linux now a days with steam+proton helping out a lot.
Just bought sekiro on friday and it runs like a dream without me having to configure a thing.
Re: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
#116One interesting question is how viable this can be if they continue their strategy of differentiation through privacy. Doing "services" for people intrinsically means knowing about them. What they watch, what they read, what they listen to, what they need, who they are. The more you know, the better you can "service" them. By pursuing this path they may quickly find themselves sucked into a slipperly slope that puts…
This is the most powerful thing they could do. There are a ton of services that are almost impossible to deliver at scale without a lot of data. If only there were a company that was trustworthy...
Re: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
#117Alan Kay once remarked “I don't know what Silicon Valley will do when it runs out of Doug's ideas."
Re: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
They could even bundle in a MacBook, iPad, and watch at a higher price tier so that the hard core Apple fans could pay a single monthly subscription fee and always have the latest model of every device.
I wonder if a subscription fee for hardware would appeal to businesses.
I'd imagine so, given that's what hosting services like AWS are (along with the related software).
Re: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
#119Alan Kay once remarked “I don't know what Silicon Valley will do when it runs out of Doug's ideas."
+1 - feels like a once great product company is now taking its strategy cues from market analysts.
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#120But if I am not an iOS device owner, what incentive do I have to use Apple's services? Currently I see none.