Foundation (Asimov) on AppleTV+ Trailer - Are You In or Out?

[Tonguez]

Apple TV?

 

[Mallus]

Apple TV?

Their streaming service. $5/month. You can usually get a year free when you buy an Apple gizmo.

 

[payn]

Ted Lasso is really, really good TV.

...and thats fine, but I still haven't seen any new star trek on Paramount+, or caught up on some hulu things I want to see. Too many subs too little time.

 

[Morrus]

...and thats fine, but I still haven't seen any new star trek on Paramount+, or caught up on some hulu things I want to see. Too many subs too little time.

Yeah it’s a bit different for us. Trek is on Netflix, and I don’t know what content originated on Hulu over there but if it’s available here it will be on one of the existing big ones.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Their streaming service. $5/month. You can usually get a year free when you buy an Apple gizmo.

Yeah, it was a really really strange choice to call their streaming service AppleTV+ (IMO). Especially because the app is called (IIRC) AppleTV. And so is the hardware. So I think it is really really common (as we've already seen here!) for people to think that you have AppleTV (the hardware) to have the streaming service.

It would be like if they never had Apple Music or iTunes, and announced that they had a new music service .... iPhone+.

Given that there is a significant number of people that just don't like Apple (walled garden, hate fruit, whatever), but might want to watch the cool shows, it seems like a strange decision.

Then again, who am I to speak? It's not like I'm running the most profitable company in the world. ....yet.

 

[the Jester]

My answer is, "I'd like to, but not enough to subscribe to another service".

 

[payn]

Yeah it’s a bit different for us. Trek is on Netflix, and I don’t know what content originated on Hulu over there but if it’s available here it will be on one of the existing big ones.

The only thing on Hulu for me really is season 3 of Fargo, Archer, and maybe Mr. Inbetween. I could probably get caught up during a free trial. The trek stuff though might have enough content on paramount+ to need a month or two. Thats all moot tho NFL football is about to launch a new season so I wont be watching much of anything else.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Thats all moot tho NFL football is about to launch a new season so I wont be watching much of anything else.

 

[Deset Gled]

So I think it is really really common (as we've already seen here!) for people to think that you have AppleTV (the hardware) to have the streaming service.

As a side point here (only defending myself a little bit ) AppleTV has not made any universally available app for Android or Windows. They have only released device specific support. They've done a good job expanding the list in the last few months, but they started with just Apple, Roku, and Amazon Fire. I still can't access it on my phone, and can only use on it on my computer via a browser interface. The "walled garden" is a bigger garden, but it's still got walls.

That being said, HBO was one of the original "walled garden" companies as a premium cable channel, and they have some of the most watched TV series ever. So there's no reason to think this will stop them from being successful. What are the odds we'll see hotels advertising "Free AppleTV+" the way you used to see "Free HBO" on signs?

 

[Umbran]

and can only use on it on my computer via a browser interface.

How many people actually use standalone desktop apps for streaming content?