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

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

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I know Apple has been part of entertainment media in last decades with ipod and such. But the "why" part of how a great hardware company like Apple, produces Tv Shows so we get distracted enough is like a lot more dystopian if anyone thinks about it.

Following this, in this decade Nvidia will produce or acquire a company that creates in house AI movies, I mean why not?

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Orrrrr they didn't want to rely on/have to pay the exorbitant costs that 3rd-party (e.g. the incumbent studios) would be charging...?

Yes but at core it's tech company? Disney and a lot of other streaming services created by Hollywood make sense, even thou business models are not profitable recently. Without good 3rd party content, it can take a decade or more to create a good library and still that's not enough IMO.

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Apple's mission is not to move civilization forward like you seem to think, but rather to maximize shareholder value.

Yeah for that subscription service for tv-series and movies seems really great way to increase value. As we see with Disney+ etc how profitable it really is.

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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.

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Orrrrr they didn't want to rely on/have to pay the exorbitant costs that 3rd-party (e.g. the incumbent studios) would be charging...?

Yes but at core it's tech company? Disney and a lot of other streaming services created by Hollywood make sense, even thou business models are not profitable recently. Without good 3rd party content, it can take a decade or more to create a good library and still that's not enough IMO.

And we were led to believe Google is a search engine, when it's actually an ad company with a passable search engine side-gig.

I'd say Apple has changed to being a content company that just so happens to make actually good devices (as long as you don't fall into the "hurrrr apple bad!" trap).

Apple's been at it for ~5 years now re: Apple+ series, and they're not all must-see blockbusters, but getting better.

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