r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 16d ago

News Apple Losing Over $1 Billion a Year on Streaming Service

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-losing-over-1-billion-year-streaming-service-information-reports-2025-03-20/
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u/nonlawyer 16d ago

If only there was some kind of service that could bundle together a whole bunch of different sources of content

If it came through to your house on some kind of wire or cable we could call it “Wire”

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u/reeker 16d ago

I will not have this pro cable revisionism in my house. All people ever said when there was no choice in the matter is "why am I paying so much for cable?? Just let me pay for the channels I want!" and now that we have that presented to us people are like, wait I have to pay $20 for each of them???

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u/Flipdip3 16d ago

But we are still paying for tons of stuff we don't want.

There are about a million reality 'love' shows on Hulu/Peacock/etc. I will never watch any of them. I don't want to pay for them. If I could cut even 50 cents a month off my bill by removing them I would. Same for HGTV content. Or toddler shows.

Hell we could go to a straight "Every episode/30 minutes of content you watch costs you 0.005$ or whatever.

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u/mangosail 16d ago

You also can just purchase the shows you want, in the case of nearly all shows. That’s pretty much always been the case.

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u/JaesopPop 16d ago

But then I'd have to pay for all of them instead of just the ones I want.

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u/skatecrimes 16d ago

Yeah im not paying for a fox news channel.

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u/Reddit_means_Porn 16d ago

Indeed. They suck now. Gotta go with the monopoly play money of news orgs like OAN or Newsmax

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u/whobroughtmehere 16d ago

Not that any cable news is much more than sensationalized political jabs sponsored by their biggest donors but…

You’re not seriously advocating for even less legitimate sources of information, right?

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u/Reddit_means_Porn 16d ago

Im actually floored that you and some downvoters cannot decipher the sarcasm staring you in the face in my comment…

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u/whobroughtmehere 16d ago

Because some of us have heard your sentiment, said genuinely, by loved ones

Text doesn’t convey the sarcasm

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u/Reddit_means_Porn 16d ago

If I gave you monopoly fun money, would you say “thank you for the money”?

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u/whobroughtmehere 16d ago

If I gave you a bad faith argument would you expect it to change your opinion?

Your joke didn’t land. Sarcasm over text is not a guarantee… let it go

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u/Reddit_means_Porn 16d ago

…it’s a shame you don’t know what Monopoly money is. It’s a board game called Monopoly.

It’s fake money. It’s fake. Like it’s not real. If you saw it and held it, you’d immediately be able to know it’s not real currency.

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u/Ouxington 16d ago

It's 2025, absurdism died in 2018. Use the god damn '/s'.

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u/Saneless 16d ago

We know you want HBO, but we're gonna charge you an extra $15 for TLC, Bravo, and the Real Housewives Channel

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u/sonofaresiii 16d ago

And it would cost double or even triple what you pay currently for all the separate services

it always blows my mind how people whine about streaming being just like cable. Like, no, it is really not. Those people most not be old enough to remember actually being an account-holding subscriber to cable back in its heyday in the 90's or early aughts.

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u/sudoku7 16d ago

The funny bit is.. Apple TV (the app, not the box nor the service) actually does consolidate multiple streaming services to one app. It's kind of nice imo.

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u/Epinier 16d ago

But since everything is wireless now, mayb it should be called "wave"?

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u/TonyVstar 16d ago

Sounds like something that will get ruined by over-commercialization and being forced to pay high prices for packages you don't want

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u/BOHIFOBRE 16d ago

IPTV has this, but ymmv

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u/MarnerIsAMagicMan 16d ago

Cable. Television.

They were being sarcastic.

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u/BOHIFOBRE 16d ago

I know, lol

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u/MarnerIsAMagicMan 16d ago

Tough to tell these days aha

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u/JZMoose 16d ago

My mileage circumnavigates the globe and I actually have way too many options in the form of 47,000 channels now lol

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u/passionfruit2378 16d ago

Idk, I have six streaming services and it is still cheaper than my cable ever was, even on promotion.

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u/Tapeworm1979 15d ago

I'd happily pay a bit more for Netflix to get others just to avoid their god awful sites. I'm especially singling you out Prime.