Apple Original Movies?
Could be!
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Posted on 09/01/2015 4:56:56 PM PDT by Swordmaker
As the countdown for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) launching its iPhone 6S and 6S Plus began, the expectations of an announcement on other key matters is also growing. There are already expectations that the company might disclose something on Apple TV. Things could even go a step further to suggest that the tech firm will also produce the original video content. The company has scheduled an event on September 9 and more news about the possible announcement will keep growing.
Meeting Hollywood Executives
The news about Apple Inc. producing original contents gain grounds because it held meetings with the executives of Hollywood in recent weeks. That is to gauge their mindset in providing a helping hand to produce original movies, as well as, TV shows. The company seems to believe that producing content will challenge Netflix, Inc., as well as, Amazon.com, Inc.’s Amazon Prime.
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Because that’s what they’re good at.
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Thanks, once more, for the heads up, Sunk. . .
Quick, somebody write a script about some quirky transgender illegal immigrants struggling to make it in the big city. Guaranteed Apple would option that!
Great, just what I’d expect. I’m not even the slightly bit interested in what they have to,say.
If you are not interested, why comment on that fact? Why not just ignore this thread and go your way, moving on to the next thread that might interest you. Your announcement is what is boring. . . and a waste of your time and ours.
You forgot to make them of a proper racially protected sub-group in a persecuted religious minority that is not Christian. . . oh, and vegan, anti-gun, socialists, fleeing big-business polluters who are creating man-made climate change in their home country.
Just like Netflix and Amazon were good at it. House of Cards is excellent. The Amazon pilot on the alt ending of WW II looks very good and is moving into production. You have to hire the right firms to do the work for you.
I was highly skeptical at first that any of these companies would produce good shows, but I’ve been very pleasantly surprised. I expect Apple, if they actually do this, will do it in classical Apple fashion — first rate. I just hope the CEO leaves his politics out of it.
There isn’t an actor or actress in TV or movies that I’d pay to see.
#5 You can bet that Apple will do a show like that.
Amazon has. Heck even a Star Trek fan film had James T Kirk nephew as gay.... arrgh!
Calm down and go back to the shows of the 50’s, 60’ 70’s
My pleasure. This has the potential of being one of their better ideas, BTW, IMHO.
My real gripe with Apple other than the ALGORE left tilt is they’ve turned into a me-too company. Their products have but a 6 month lead.
Since the iPhone nothing really innovative has been put forward. The iPad was a first but really nothing more than a swollen iPhone without a phone, and the watch was a 2nd or 3rd and is but a shrunken iPhone without a phone.
They are living in the past on profits for services that you can get elsewhere.
Which opinion shows you really do not have a clue about what you are talking about. You're wrong. You don't have any idea about what innovation is. It is obvious you don't use the products and don't experience how they work together which is one of the greatest innovations Apple has created that no one else has matched. Every other company's ecosystem is a kludge in comparison, dependent on third-party apps to get a poor simulation of what Apple does.
What you claim is a "me too" company is when Apple does it, it actually works, and is not a kludge that people have to assemble themselves from disparate parts and apps from multiple sources which works across all of Apple's devices, not just a selected few. A good example is that Apple's current iOS version 8.4.1 is installed on 92.5% of all iOS devices in the wild just one year after it was released. . . and they all will connect back with hand-off to Mac OS X. Android? Only 15.5% of Android users are on Android 5 Lollipop. When you add Android 4.4 Kitkat, it only rises to 54.8%, almost two years after Kitkat was released.
Show me a tech company that doesn't have a leftward tilt. . . it's hard to find one that doesn't have one, unfortunately.
Keep thinking that. You can get anything an Apple does for a lot less somewhere else.
Just Works?
Objective-C? Their software is chained to a programming language from the 1980’s,
XCode? their dev environment? Buggy as hell
iTunes? how much more crap can they add to it.
iPhone? can’t change the resolution when taking pictures.
They have everything locked down pretty well so it works better than most but my old Windows Phone still worked better but had no apps. In particular Here Maps. When I got an iPhone I had to also get a GPS.
Now they want all your health information.
What do they do that nobody else does?
I know that you can buy a lot of junk cheaply. However, by the time you put your time into getting it all to work together, you have a kludge that only partially works together. I work cross platform on multiple systems.
You seem to know the price of everything but the value of nothing. . . especially the time of people who really don't want to spend time tinkering to make something work.
I do not believe you own an iPhone now, if you ever did before. . . because you said that when you got an iPhone you had to buy a GPS. It may be you bought the 2007 model that used Cell Tower triangulation for location services. Admit it, you don't use Apple products at all. You spout talking points from FUD articles that also don't know what they are talking about.
But, yes, it just works. Apple's Maps app works excellently now. Even when it was released, the few glitches were minor. When Google Maps added their 3D view, three years later, it had the SAME KIND of glitches that the nattering nabobs of negativity were chattering about as being so bad in Apple Maps but not a peep was heard in the press.
The direction problems with Apple Maps existed not in Apple Maps but in TomTom, the source of the data which Apple was leasing in their original release; it was not inherent just in Apple's data. And the business data errors came from Yelp not updating its databases. Within six months of release, all of the so called errors were fixed. . . but the nay-sayers, under the baton being waved by Google, were still screaming about the problems that existed on the first release, not that they had been fixed. . . and they STILL crow about those glitches today, three years later.
Objective-C? Their software is chained to a programming language from the 1980’s,
XCode? their dev environment? Buggy as hell
Not according to the people who program for multiple platforms. . . Haven't you heard of SWIFT????
iPhone? can’t change the resolution when taking pictures.
That's a new one. Why would you want to take crappier photos than your camera is capable of taking? Most criticism is that the iPhone camera doesn't have more! SHEESH! Take the photo, send it to your iCloud automatically encrypted to 256 bit AES standard, then delete it from your phone to clear up space if you need the memory space, and take more. Resize the photo as needed later.
Now they want all your health information.
No, Okie, Apple does not want your health information. It's kept on your devices for YOUR use. If you decide you are willing to share it personally with your doctor, or anonymously with research organizations, it's your choice, it never goes to Apple for their use. Apple could not be less interested. It will be stored with your iCloud data, but that is encrypted to 256 bit AES standards, and only YOU have the key. Apple doesn't have the key to your data. They cannot decrypt it, only you can unlock it.
What do they do that nobody else does?
As I said, Apple integration is far better than anyone else's integration. . . I do something on my iPhone, iPad, or Mac, it's instantly on the other devices I own, if I start a document on one, I can finish on another, edit an email on one, send it on another. If developers follow the guidelines and use the APIs, it will work across the apps too. It all works seamlessly. Multiple people can work on a single document and track edits. . . seamlessly. All apps share the same User interface and layout of menus. Drag and drop actually works across all apps. Plug in a device, the system recognizes it and it's ready to go. Except in very rare circumstances, searching for drivers to install is not required. Deleting an App or program is as simple as dragging it to the trash. . . and anti-virus/anti-malware is really an unnecessary addition. . . as are the various third party utilities to keep the system running cleanly.
One thing they are doing is NOT sharing any of your data with the authorities because they literally cannot. They don't have the key to it. Microsoft and Google long ago jumped that shark and agreed to participate but Apple refused. Apple will comply with a legal search warrant and hand over your encrypted data, which is gobbledegook. . . but it is up to the government to get it unlocked, to decrypt it.
Apple cannot help them do that. The government has to compel YOU to give them the key to open the files.
Could the Windows version of iTunes use a bottom to top rebuild? Probably, perhaps even certainly. The Mac version works quite well.
I've been developing for 30 years used dozens of IDE's, wouldn't do anything else.
iPhone? can’t change the resolution when taking pictures.
Resize the photo as needed later.
answered my question.
Now they want all your health information.
No, Okie, Apple does not want your health information. It's kept on your devices for YOUR use.
On my own personal iCloud server?
If you want your own server, you can do that. . . but what part of uploaded to iCloud at 256 bit AES encryption to which you hold the only key, and to which Apple does NOT have access, do you fail to understand?
You haven't answered my question. What model was the last iPhone you owned. . . the 2007 iPhone? I doubt you use any Apple product. . . your disparaging remarks about UNIX shows that's so.
So you are a Windows developer and maybe an Android developer. Whoopee. . . Your obvious bias doesn't increase your credibility much.
You are right. It’s impossible for your transmitted encrypted information to be intercepted and decrypted.
Want to buy a bridge?
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