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> AppleTV has been running circles around Netflix (and other streaming services when it comes to quality) No it hasn't, Apple TV has been making shows for a na
by Mindwipe 4y ago
> AppleTV has been running circles around Netflix (and other streaming services when it comes to quality)
No it hasn't, Apple TV has been making shows for a narrow demographic of people who hang around on HN and nobody else.
That's fine and all, I hang around on Hacker News and I like that, and Apple can afford to dump two billion dollars a year in a furnace and set it on fire to make Tim feel like a Hollywood big shot, but it is not a successful service by any conventional metric.
- avl999 4y agoWell AppleTV shows tend to get pretty good reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, tv critics certainly aren't the "hacker news crowd". I do agree that AppleTV's content is targeted to be more niche than the much more broader content of Netflix which is trying to produce something for everyone. But that allows them to have good quality control over their product and there is nothing wrong with producing less content but content targeted at a niche. HBO found a lot of success in the pre-streaming era following a very similar model.
- zeroonetwothree 4y agoYes, Apple TV is making shows exclusively for the 10,000 people that use HN. Clearly that's their genius business model.