On 23/11/2022 22:42, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 11/23/2022 2:50 PM, Your Name wrote:

There have also been rumours of Apple buying up Netflix.

Disney of course does own Hulu (with a sleeping partner minority stake
owned by Comcast).

Netflix has a market cap of $130 billion.  Doable.  Apple reputedly has $300 billion cash in the bank.
   https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NFLX?p=NFLX

Disney has a market cap of $180 billion.
   https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DIS?p=DIS

Why not buy both ?  Of course the FTC will disallow one for sure.

At least if Apple bought Netflix or Disney the quality of Apple TV would improve!!!

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On 2022-11-23 23:23:17 +0000, Blueshirt said:

On 23/11/2022 22:42, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 11/23/2022 2:50 PM, Your Name wrote:

There have also been rumours of Apple buying up Netflix.

Disney of course does own Hulu (with a sleeping partner minority stake
owned by Comcast).

Netflix has a market cap of $130 billion.  Doable.  Apple reputedly
has $300 billion cash in the bank.
   https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NFLX?p=NFLX

Disney has a market cap of $180 billion.
   https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DIS?p=DIS

Why not buy both ?  Of course the FTC will disallow one for sure.

At least if Apple bought Netflix or Disney the quality of Apple TV
would improve!!!

Neither purchase would improve "Apple TV", since that is a hardware
set-top box you plug into your TV.

Whether either purchase would "improve" the Apple TV+ streaming service
depends on what shows you like and dislike, so is purely personal
opinion.

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Your Name wrote:

On 2022-11-23 23:23:17 +0000, Blueshirt said:

At least if Apple bought Netflix or Disney the quality of Apple TV
would improve!!!

Neither purchase would improve "Apple TV", since that is a hardware
set-top box you plug into your TV.

Whether either purchase would "improve" the Apple TV+ streaming
service depends on what shows you like and dislike, so is purely
personal opinion.

Yes, Apple TV+ (they love their + signs in the US don't they) and it's
shit! Which is indeed a subjective opinion... but true none the less!
;-)

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Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

Your Name wrote:

On 2022-11-23 23:23:17 +0000, Blueshirt said:

At least if Apple bought Netflix or Disney the quality of Apple TV
would improve!!!

Neither purchase would improve "Apple TV", since that is a hardware
set-top box you plug into your TV.

Whether either purchase would "improve" the Apple TV+ streaming
service depends on what shows you like and dislike, so is purely
personal opinion.

Yes, Apple TV+ (they love their + signs in the US don't they) and it's
shit! Which is indeed a subjective opinion... but true none the less!
;-)

I disagree:

Bad Sisters
Slow Horses
For All Mankind
Severance

… have been excellent

The Morning Show

… was watchable

There has been quite a lot of crap along with those, but that can be said
of every service

--
There are some corners of the universe
which have bred the most terrible things.
Things which act against everything we believe in.

They must be /fought/.

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The Last Doctor wrote:

Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

Your Name wrote:

On 2022-11-23 23:23:17 +0000, Blueshirt said:

At least if Apple bought Netflix or Disney the quality of Apple TV
would improve!!!

Neither purchase would improve "Apple TV", since that is a hardware
set-top box you plug into your TV.

Whether either purchase would "improve" the Apple TV+ streaming
service depends on what shows you like and dislike, so is purely
personal opinion.

Yes, Apple TV+ (they love their + signs in the US don't they) and
it's shit! Which is indeed a subjective opinion... but true none
the less! ;-)

I disagree:

Bad Sisters
Slow Horses
For All Mankind
Severance

… have been excellent

The Morning Show

… was watchable

There has been quite a lot of crap along with those, but that can be
said of every service

I think maybe the crap stands out a bit more more on Apple TV+ as they
don't have the same number of quality 'originals' in comparison to
Netflix... at the moment.

I do see Apple TV+ as the weaker of the main streaming platforms that
we have access to at Blueshirt Towers. (Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+)

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Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The Last Doctor wrote:

Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

Your Name wrote:

On 2022-11-23 23:23:17 +0000, Blueshirt said:

At least if Apple bought Netflix or Disney the quality of Apple TV
would improve!!!

Neither purchase would improve "Apple TV", since that is a hardware
set-top box you plug into your TV.

Whether either purchase would "improve" the Apple TV+ streaming
service depends on what shows you like and dislike, so is purely
personal opinion.

Yes, Apple TV+ (they love their + signs in the US don't they) and
it's shit! Which is indeed a subjective opinion... but true none
the less! ;-)

I disagree:

Bad Sisters
Slow Horses
For All Mankind
Severance

… have been excellent

The Morning Show

… was watchable

There has been quite a lot of crap along with those, but that can be
said of every service

I think maybe the crap stands out a bit more more on Apple TV+ as they
don't have the same number of quality 'originals' in comparison to
Netflix... at the moment.

I do see Apple TV+ as the weaker of the main streaming platforms that
we have access to at Blueshirt Towers. (Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+)

We have all those plus Paramount and Now (cos I’m not paying for full fat
Sky ever again) - in general I figure if there’s one series or a couple of movies I want to watch every month on a streaming service, then it’s worth the £6. (It’s always possible to do a deal to get it down to £6)

--
There are some corners of the universe
which have bred the most terrible things.
Things which act against everything we believe in.

They must be /fought/.

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On 2022-11-24 11:49:06 +0000, Blueshirt said:

Your Name wrote:

On 2022-11-23 23:23:17 +0000, Blueshirt said:

At least if Apple bought Netflix or Disney the quality of Apple TV
would improve!!!

Neither purchase would improve "Apple TV", since that is a hardware
set-top box you plug into your TV.

Whether either purchase would "improve" the Apple TV+ streaming
service depends on what shows you like and dislike, so is purely
personal opinion.

Yes, Apple TV+ (they love their + signs in the US don't they)

They do have Apple TV+, Disney+, Paramount+, BET+, AMC+, Discovery+, We
TV+, DailyWire+, ...

It's not just the US though.

The morons here at Television New Zealand recently changed the name of
their service from "TVNZ OnDemand" to "TVNZ+". :-\

Then there's the French "Canal+"

and it's shit! Which is indeed a subjective opinion... but true none the less!
;-)

There are one or two shows I like. Apple TV+ does also own the rights
to 'broadcast' the Peanuts animations which are hugely popular in the
US, although personally I've never really liked them.

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