Apple putting AppleTV+ on Amazon channels for Android users was a smart move, although a independent Android app would have been smarter imo.
Oh, I already ranted over in https://lemmy.world/post/22226162 first but,
As an Android user, how do you propose I watch? I’m aware that you released to some Android TV devices a few years ago, you haven’t released to the Android OS yet and as a Chromecast user I’m still out of luck.
You’re ignoring a huge section of the market, so go fuck yourself Apple. You don’t get to ignore users and then complain that no one is watching.
Do you remember when Game of Thrones was only available via HBO Go, which was only available via iOS devices and then Game of Thrones was the most pirated TV show? I FUCKING WONDER WHY???
I’ve (somehow?) watched a number of Apple shows and they are good shows. Mythic Quest, Shrinking, Severance. I’m you’re target audience, it’s time you pay attention to that audience.
You’re not picking me up now, I’ve already found “other methods” but you can win me back if you make it easier. It’s going to take some time, but time to get started.
The reason is Apple is not in the streaming business, it’s in the hardware business and sales business.
Apple is not trying to get you to just join it’s streaming service. It’s trying to get you to buy it’s hardware so you’re in it’s ecosystem so it gets 1/3 of everything you spend on content and services. It’s the ultimate route in upselling.
You buy an Apple TV device, you watch some of their shows but also you buy some apps, and you sign up for other services (who have to pay apple for access), maybe you buy content through iTunes.
Apple wants you using Apple TV, and get an IPhone and a Mac and tablet etc. If you’re not on an Apple device they don’t want you because you’re able to spend money elsewhere.
Apples whole business is vendor lock-in. They just lock you in a gilded cage so you don’t realise you’re a prisoner. And they make you pay for the gilding.
$20bn is nothing in the scale of Apples ecosystem.
I never see their ads, the only thing I’ve seen of theirs is Silo
(which was good, season 2 starts soon)
They have some more shows that are definitely worth watching like Tes Lasso, All for mankind, and Master of the air to name a few.
Season 2 of Silo started a couple of days ago with one episode a week
Silo S2 has already started btw - ep 1 was last Friday.
