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
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.
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.
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.
