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IamtheSlothKing t1_j972lx5 wrote

Reply to comment by PetyrDayne in Future-Set Hello Tomorrow! Is Another Unique, (Qualified) Success for Apple TV+ by PetyrDayne

You can never create a new service that is also financially viable on the internet. You will always have to basically create a service that isn’t profitable so that you can grow an audience, and then figure out how to make money after you have the audience.

I don’t think this applies to Apple TV at all basically, they will always need to be churning out good content to keep an audience.

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Saar13 t1_j974zrx wrote

Apple plays a long game, and given the financial disaster of traditional media groups, they could be long-term winners. It's simply waiting until most of the competition has no more money to compete. It's "very Apple" to do that, by the way.

I was reading a news story this week that Google may be paying Apple $30 billion annually to simply keep Google as the default search in Safari and a few other simple deals. That alone represents annual revenue for WBD and Paramount. It's a money machine that will wait for others to fail, without any worries. Lucky for them.

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Saar13 t1_j98d7hx wrote

But what would be Apple's anticompetitive behavior in relation to AppleTV+? hey didn't buy any studios; they're just playing sitting on top of money. What's happening to traditional studios like WBD and Paramount is their fault.

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okoroezenwa t1_j993uh8 wrote

Seriously, antitrust action because Apple basically kept to themselves and slowly amassed a formidable TV/Movie library over the years would be such a farce.

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grandmofftalkin t1_j9b088f wrote

Apple has a diversified business model where most of their money is coming from selling hardware and the app store. That plus their cash on hand probably means Apple+ can thrive without subscriber or advertising pressures. Same with Amazon and to a lesser extent D+.

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DisastrousDaveBerry t1_j9f8d0f wrote

> Same with Amazon and to a lesser extent D+.

Amazon has always been willing to keep throwing large amounts of money at things that don't make them a profit for many years until finally they do. The only times it hasn't worked for them is the smart-speakers and Amazon games.

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