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> Apple, per the Times, remains the perceived frontrunner. CEO Tim Cook has met with league officials, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, and Patriots owner Robert Kraft regarding Sunday Ticket. The Times writes that Apple "has made winning the package a priority."

Apple keeps investing so much into exclusivity deals and extended free trials to try to boost usage, and yet the only people I've ever seen recommending Apple TV+ content are those in the Apple blogosphere.

EDIT: Ted Lasso probably came closest to mainstream acceptance and yet... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/TIMESERIES/16586976...

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What? Ted Lasso is really popular. The Morning Show too. Coda won best picture. All three of those are pretty mainstream. Not Netflix show levels of mainstream but certainly not limited to the blogosphere.

Those shows/movies barely register when compared with Stranger Things: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/TIMESERIES/16586976...

This isn't exactly an apples-to-oranges comparison. Stranger Things had the advantage of Netflix being a dominant player in the streaming market for many years. Let's compare Ted Lasso with House of Cards, Netflix's first foray into creating an original series:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

Ted Lasso is doing pretty good!

Stranger Things is literally the most popular streaming show ever.

That's like comparing The Larry Sanders show to Seinfeld.

Hey Now!

Anecdotal, but I've never even heard of Coda.

I see what you did there.

And yet it won the Oscars this year... I mean a fair number of people would see it just because of that.

I have never heard of any of those shows

The only show I have ever heard about on Apple tv is Mythic Quest

Huh? I don’t watch sports but Apple Original series are some of the best TV right now.

Like what? Might be my bubble but I've literally heard more about an offshoot of a basically dead franchise (House of the Dragon) than about anything out of Apple.

Severance is one of the best TV shows I've seen in years.

Tod Lasso is pretty much universally loved by friends of mine who have watched it. You don't have to be a soccer fan to watch it.

I don't know as many people who have watched Severance, but it's an incredibly good show- as long as Season 2 maintains the quality, I think it'll rank up there with shows like The Wire and Breaking Bad.

Severance, Black Bird (airing now), Slow Horses, Foundation, Ted Lasso, and early parts of Servant.

For all Mankind - probably the best scifi show right now.

It's not saying much to be honest. I find myself fast forwarding through any scenes that don't take place off planet.

Severance, Dr. Brain, Defending Jacob, and WeCrashed were the only good shows I found on Apple TV+. That said those are all extremely good.

> I find myself fast forwarding through any scenes that don't take place off planet.

Hah, yes. I would also have preferred more space scenes and less family drama and office politics.

We’ve watched Defending Jacob, See, Home Before Dark (kids show), Servant and they were very good, quality shows

Severance, Morning Show, Black Bird, Mythic Quest to start.

Paul Walter Hauser is killing it in Black Bird.

Severance is great but a really slow burn.

Ted Lasso, Severance, Prehistoric Planet.

For whatever it's worth: I don't have Disney, Netflix, HBO, or Hulu. I do have Apple TV, for Ted Lasso, The Morning Show, Coda, For All Mankind, and Black Bird.

A bunch of other shows that are not great and I don't watch them, but they're not terrible, at least.

No offense but having "Cupertino" in your username kinda reinforces my point :)

Oh noes, someone's looking.

No, I don't work at Apple, never have, never will.

No but chances are you are heavy in the Apple Echosystem which was the point. Apple TV needs to break out of Apple Fans...

I own zero apple products, and have no interest in Apple TV being the first.

That is the point, how many Apple TV users also own an IPhone, iPAD, and a Mac computer?

You mean ecosystem?

> how many Apple TV users also own an IPhone, iPAD, and a Mac computer

just one of those.

They might be mostly confined to Apple fans; I don't know. They do seem, in general, to want a universe of fanboys. Fortunately, Apple TV isn't very sticky that way, so far at least. I watch it completely on non-Apple equipment.

If they didn’t mean “echosystem” it’s the greatest typo of the decade

That's why I made it a question instead a statement. It works either way.

Still, it's kinda like "AppleNumberOneSuperfan says he likes Apple TV".

Um... no. I have an Android phone. No i-anything but I do have the Mac.

Which is why I got AppleTV for free, but now I'm paying for it.

I had Apple TV+ for a year for free and never saw anything appealing enough to get me to use it.

The first year felt sparse, but it's been a different story lately.

Who cares how popular a streaming service is? Just look at reviews and such to find series/movies you'd like. Apple TV+ has a lot of good stuff IMO; I'm really enjoying Shining Girls at the moment.

I dunno. My parents and their peer group can't stop recommending Ted Lasso, Coda, Greyhound, etc. It seems to me their audience skews older.

Apple ecosystem is the Jitterbug of the rich.

I agree, with the only exception to that (and then again it seemed to me most people discussing it simply pirated it) is Ted Lasso, which is quite popular in some niches (football(the one called soccer in the US) and Football Manager related subreddits for instance).

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