Apple has a literal 100 billion in cash reserves. They’ll be just fine with losing a billion a year while becoming THE source for premium TV content
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Just looking at the numbers, they are spending $5G and losing $1G. Their subscriptions are growing. So if they grow another 25% they are making money. (Ignoring infrastructure costs which are most likely a tiny fraction of per-user revenue.) They also just launched an Android app. So I think their story is looking pretty good. Not even considering that it raises the value of Apple TV hardware, their other devices and gives them more lock-in for customers in general that seems like a great investment they made.
That’s sad to hear. The content on there is amazing for the most part. But, apparently, not cluttering it up with a bunch of junk is actually costing them somehow.
It’s a loss leader. They make money selling the hardware and use AppleTV as a feature. That’s why the content is so good; it has to be to make it a compelling addition to their existing products.
That would make sense if it wasn't available on every other platform.
It’s still good marketing. People will associate a good service, with good/great shows/movies and without all the fluff that Netflix has, with a good company.
Good content is expensive. And from what I understand, the financials are all fucked up across the industry.
Just look at Netflix, they just blew $320 million on a huge piece of garbage, The Electric State.
*citation needed
They don’t say where they get these numbers other than “two people” cited in a paywalled article.
Apple One has over 1 billion subscribers. I’m sure they can afford a loss leader like that.
The only way to know if this true is if Apple says so or they just stop producing content.
Apple One has over 1 billion subscribers. I’m sure they can afford a loss leader like that.
This is not true. According to a 2022 Press Release, Apple has 900 million paid subscriptions across ALL Apple services. Many of which are App Store-based subscriptions for third party services. The figure also includes things like Apple Care and Apple Financial Services.
Apple TV+ is a great service, good app interface and some decent series there too. Too bad I had to get rid of it due to the current US administration and their policies. Apart from the default apps I switched everything to European and/or non-profit open source alternatives, which was surprisingly easy.
good app interface
Maybe it's because I don't use any other Apple products, but I struggle with its interface
Interesting
stop cancelling schmigadoon and central park the only two shows on apple tv i liked.