Pirate here. I’ve watched some, most is ok. Slow Horses is not a great example, I would have gone with Severance as the poster child.
First season of Slow Horses was fantastic, a breath of fresh air, filling in a place left empty since Tinker Tailor’s last iteration. I was stoked and had high hopes, none of the ensuing seasons have been as good, to the point they feel lazy now.
I’ve really enjoyed every season so far.
I hate that I agree with you. I thought it would be something else and then the first season ended and it was a worse burn notice.
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.
They are more and more in the cloud data subscription business instead, utilizing their closed ecosystem and then using the data for their own advertising side hustle like google (though at least they don’t sell the data to the lowest bidder like google)
I don’t know if many people have switched to an iPhone recently, but my mother did.
An iPhone gives you 1 GB of iCloud storage “free” and automatically force-enables icloud backup for everything on the phone like photos, videos, contacts, etc… So that it is immediately full and then gives you almost constant big warnings and reminders that you will lose all of your data and there is a problem with your phone unless you pay 5€ per month to upgrade your iCloud storage.
It is a royal pain to use a different backup service instead.
Apple also artificially caps storage on their phones and laptops (256GB on their 1100€ macbook air model in 2024? 512 GB on their 2000€ macbook pro model??) And push iCloud and iCloud plus hard, just like Microsoft is doing with their horrible OneDrive decisions and baking in “One drive save” as default in all of their apps.
I think you’re 100% correct. I’m bothered by the article dancing around this by using the word “marketing”.
I wish the article pushed back against Apple and pointed out their obviously missing flaw, even if it’s part of their strategy.
Kinda funny too when Android has something like a 70%+ global market share.
This is the purpose of “the customer is always right”. If the demand is already there but there’s no supply, that’s bad business.
Apple’s focus is vendor lock-in. Everything in their ecosystem integrates perfectly. They’re selling devices that lock you in to their ecosystem and they get a 1/3 cut from all digital sales from competitors also using their platform.
They’re not interested in getting as many people as possible watching their shows. They’re interested in getting as many people as possible buying Apple TV devices, and then getting drawn into the Apple ecosystem.
Regard the $20bn spent on TV shows as marketing spend.
It’s not there’s no supply, it’s we’re going to provide you and force you to use only our approved methods of delivery, which has always been Apples whole gig since their inception. It’s why I refuse to use their products.
Foundation is my Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, or Dune. When they fucking butchered it, I walked away, and I’ll never come back.
Thank you for posting here!
I love For All Mankind, despite its shortcomings. I wish some fan could make an abridged version.
I never see their ads, the only thing I’ve seen of theirs is Silo
(which was good, season 2 starts soon)
Silo S2 has already started btw - ep 1 was last Friday.
👀 gotta finish Arcane first
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
one episode a week
guys, I’ve figured out why no one watches
Ted Lasso! I have also seen that, enjoyed it a lot. Haven’t heard of that last one though
As someone who has it and never watches my answer is:
“Why so serious?”
I’m sure it’s not bad stuff. I’m sure it’s actually really good. But the world is bad and even the UI starts out serious. And the whole vibe of their imaging choices is desaturated. And I need a break from serious things happening to people I guess.
Fully admit this is irrational and jokingly blame Jonathan Ive for leaving.
