Apple has to push its Apple TV+ service onto platforms outside of its ecosystem in order to gain a large-enough audience to be worthwhile, comments by Roku CEO Anthony Wood suggests, with the decision to offer an app for smart TVs and rival streaming platforms a way for Apple to work around the Apple TV set-top box’s small market share.
In contrast with some others, analysts at Bernstein and Morgan Stanley have declared that Apple is in a prime position to leverage its install base, and attract massive amounts of paid subscriptions with Apple News+, Apple Arcade, and Apple TV+.
Apple’s updated AirPods are now arriving in people’s hands, and they bring wireless charging — if you pay extra for it — as well as improved sound and hands-free “Hey, Siri.”
Analysts from Goldman Sachs and Oppenheimer are expressing skepticism about the services Apple announced on Monday, even though the former is a partner on the Apple Card.
On this special episode of the AppleInsider Podcast, Daniel Eran Dilger joins us from Cupertino to talk about the announcements made at Apple’s Services-centric March 25th event, where Apple News+, Apple Card, Apple Arcade, and Apple TV+ were all on display.
More analysts have passed judgment on the new services Apple launched during Monday’s “It’s show time” event, with Macquarie and UBS both highlighting the relative lack of surprises from what was speculated in the time before the event took place.
The new Apple News+ service has landed for us all, but we’ve only had a sneak peek at Apple TV+, Apple TV Channels, and Apple Arcade. Apple’s March 25 event came with almost no detail on what didn’t launch immediately, but the company has proven that it can literally afford to keep us waiting like it has before, because it has a plan and the wherewithal to wait out the slings and arrows.
Apple is still coming up with new design ideas it could incorporate into a self-produced vehicle, despite the seemingly self-driving nature of “Project Titan” in its current state, by creating a version of a car sunroof that offers a considerable number of position combinations compared to currently-used sunroof designs.
Chief Apple rival Samsung Electronics on Tuesday warned investors that it would report disappointing results for the March quarter, foremost blaming “weakening overall demand.”