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Apple seems to be trying to occupy the quality niche though.

• chrisseaton 5y ago
  It’s the quality thing - previously peopled tried to compete with the BBC by being lower brow, now they’re attacking the high brow.
• echelon 5y ago
  It's insane to me that Apple and Amazon are making movies. How many things are companies allowed to do? They're clearly making it harder for other players in these markets, and they're leveraging their insane capital to succeed in areas they have no experience in. It's also incredibly annoying now that there are a dozen different subscription services, each with different apps and radically different navigation UX, and many of which don't run on the same hardware. This is insane.
  • whimsicalism 5y ago
    > they're leveraging their insane capital to succeed in areas they have no experience in. This is nothing unique about Apple and Amazon, leveraging insane capital is the name of the game.
    • echelon 5y ago
      It's wildly anticompetitive. And let's not forget that this isn't strictly about movies, but the broader concept of attention. The giants are paying to keep attention on their platforms, and they're doing it in every vertical they can possibly enter. This makes it hard for other industries to compete for that same attention as they don't have the claws and meat hooks that the trillionaire famgopolies do. How does MGM compete? They can't. They sell their assets on the cheap to the rich megamonopoly.