Apple in Talks to Bring Ads to Apple TV+

TheTechnician27 , 4 hours ago

Your daily reminder that by paying for streaming services, you’re receiving a worse product than the alternative.

Rade0nfighter , 3 hours ago

Content advertising isn’t “on brand” for Apple, so this would be a bold move.

darkevilmac , 3 hours ago

Advertising in general has been a growing revenue stream for Apple from my understanding. That “anti-tracking” they added a few iOS versions back also conveniently increased Apple’s ad revenue because other advertisers didn’t get the same data that Apple would just have by default.

Frog , 2 hours ago

I think we passed that point after the ads in the App Store,News app, Books app, and Music app.

Rade0nfighter , 1 hour ago

Agree they’ve being easing their way in for a while. My point was specifically about advertising within the content itself which would be a new line crossed.

Edit: actually yes they did do this with Apple News didn’t they! (Which is why I stopped paying for it).

maegul , 3 hours ago

While there’s a bit of a focus here on what it’d “mean” for Apple to do this … more broadly, which streaming services don’t have ads by now? Prime and Netflix do, I know that much.

Basically it seems the industry has done exactly what cable did IIRC … once they’ve got you by the balls they’ll squeeze you as dry as they can.

Apart from finding a local hardcopy rental shop (I have and am trying to use it as much as possible), or you know, just not watching, “reverting” back to piracy is likely the only way to react here.

paraphrand , 4 hours ago

Making a free tier.

TheTechnician27 , 4 hours ago

I don’t know what makes you think this would be a “free tier”; it’d just in all likelihood be an even more enshittified, slightly-less-money-flushed-down-the-toilet-for-an-inferior-product tier. archive.ph/mwfWY

Arbiter , 3 hours ago

That’s how it starts.

aniki , 1 hour ago

Time is money.