Maybe the humanity is not ready to be hooked into an entertainment computer that generates the infinite amount from the stuff that people like. Maybe there’s still space for artists and creative people.
But it will be in favor of Disney+, not AppleTV+.
I joke, the whole thing of paying 100/mo for a cable provider versus 10/mo for Netflix is slowly catching up. I already have 4 subscriptions that are nearing to half the local cable offering (albeit Australia is chock full of ads), and more are coming?
It will be an interesting space to watch over the next few years.
There's no toe dangling opportunity unless you can completely own a niche and scale up, and even that would be a relatively unproven approach.
This is what chrischen means by "I assume Netflix has troves of data on viewer preferences and what types of shows would work."
Compared to a few years ago the praise of Netflix no longer seems so effusive - whether because Netflix's stream of winning shows has dried up, or because hiring Kevin Spacey no longer seems so clever.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/feb/23/netflix-viewer...
Which is a seventh of Netflix's spend. The streaming market is spend big or go home, and to be honest the biggest issue Apple has is that investment seems rather small so far.