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Apple TV+ has highest-rated content of any streaming service for 2nd year in row

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I'm guessing Apple is not going for quantity but quality. Like everything else they do. Once they figure out what gets them high quality then they figure out how to do it at scale.

I see this in all of the things they do.

The one thing you see from Apple is though. Once they choose to do something they don't give up easily. Case in point Apple Maps. When they launched it they met with a lot of criticism. Now they're going back to the drawing board and re-doing the entire thing.

They really don't give up. I admire that about them.

p.s. If someone hasn't watched Foundation on Apple TV+, I highly recommend it.

Yes perseverance and quality, signs of great character.

Also they don't easily bend to the dark side with success - unlike most other tech companies that first win the user's trust to betray them later by focusing on profits at all costs.

Its interesting how different tastes people can have. I, for one, couldnt stand Foundation for more than three episodes. Severance, on the other hand, is like a one, series-long, good Black Mirror episode.

And to your point, I loved Black Mirror but couldn’t get through the first episode of Severance.

and now I have some new shows to watch.

FTA: “According to the study, Apple TV+ has the highest average IMDb score for its streaming library (7.08) for the second year running, although it still has the smallest library of content.”

I think ”because it has the smallest library of content” is closer to the truth. For Apple, Apple TV+ is just another thing that keeps users buying Apple hardware. For Netflix, it’s more “they better watch us than the competition”, so they need lots of content. Not all of that can be of the highest quality.

I thought about trying it, but doesn't look like it supports Chromecast.

I thought I might get some feedback, but it seems I just offended someone. Weird.

I barely supports chrome on windows! Website is so bad, I barely used it after I got the 1yr-for-free that you get with your iphone

All woke crap

Another observation - why does the average rating drop yoy for all streaming services?

As content producers yank their content from other streaming services to start their own, the good content is being dispersed over a larger number of services so the average ratings of each are going to go down. They hope their good content will be enough to get people to subscribe, but I have my doubts.

I recently switched from Netflix streaming to DVD because it was going to cost $15 per movie to see some movies I wanted to watch on Amazon Prime (the only service that had them). Plus, I hated trying to find even a half hour of TV I wanted to watch at night on either Prime or Netflix: I usually spent 15 minutes trying to find something, then 5-15 minutes of watching it before realizing it was terrible. And if I did find a series I liked, there's always that nagging feeling about whether they will cancel it abruptly without a decent ending.

With Netflix DVD, I only get around 4 movies a month, but that's 8 hours of entertainment and I wasn't getting nearly that from the streaming service.

Diversification, probably. They try to amass more and more content, not all of it is good. Averages start dropping as the user base scales too

yes, if 95% of everything is crap and your goal is to have everything it follows you will have a lot of crap.

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