Amazon paid to lock down Lord of the Rings and very nearly to James Bond. Apple did the same to Foundation. Next is football.
You need an Apple device to watch Apple TV+, and their website is buggy as hell on other operating systems and Android.
I really don't like where things are headed.
I hate where things are as well, I do miss Netflix's pseudo-monopoly on the premium streaming market, it was genuinely a huge value plus for the consumer then. Netflix was just too good at cornering the market and everyone wised up just in time for what we have now.
I pirate more these days than ever before and it's solely for the convenience so I don't have 30 different devices to stream x y and z shows and films. I remember looking at the titles offered on some service I used to have a while ago to realize that the show I wanted was not even offered on their platform...
What a sick joke.
Netflix was the subject of cornering. Disney told Netflix to take a hike because Disney owns the most popular content. Netflix had to pay $500M+ for 5 years of Seinfeld to counteract the news that Comcast was removing The Office from Netflix.
Selling media is a low barrier to entry business. Selling media that has cultural cachet spanning decades is a high barrier to entry business, with the barrier being decades of time.
Watched it on a Sony TV running Android through Apple's official app.
I watched severance on a Roku so I know that isn't true.
I watch on my Chromecast with Google TV fine.
There's lots of other non-Apple devices it works on too: https://www.apple.com/au/apple-tv-app/devices/
> Amazon paid to lock down Lord of the Rings and very nearly to James Bond. Apple did the same to Foundation. Next is football.
Well HBO etc have been doing this forever. Not sure what the distinction is.