Roku CEO Talks About Apple TV+ Going Cross-Platform

I still can't get over what a waste of time that event was. We still know no details about Apple's tv service. Except the name!

Holy crap, why did I decide to read the comments? Roku adding support for Apples services is a good thing for Roku owners and could be good for Apple to expand its reach. No need to be so negative.

This guy is so low energy for a CEO.

Because high energy is the mark of a good CEO - wait that's fitness instructors. :rolleyes:

With so many video streaming services all demanding subscriptions it's no wonder torrents are becoming more popular again unfortunately.

Shame video wouldn't follow the music model of multiple audio streaming companies able to provide about the same content.

I still can't get over what a waste of time that event was. We still know no details about Apple's tv service. Except the name!

but did you see all those celebrities? they would;dn't just get on stage for cheers or money, right?

"Wood believes that Apple is "well-positioned" to be successful in the TV streaming market, despite its competitiveness, due to the company's large user base.

'There were not a lot of details announced, but I think they're well-positioned to be successful. They've got a lot of experience with subscription services, they're investing a lot of money in content, and they've got a great brand and lots of loyal customers.'"

I think Wood and Apple and a lot of others are greatly over-estimating the loyalty of longtime customers. I have been using Apple devices since 1981, which is more years than a large percentage of MacRumors members have been alive. I like my Apple devices, but I think Apple services blow big chunks. And judging by the posts I've read in many forums in the past few years, including this one, there are a lot of us so-called loyal Apple customers who hate Apple services but like Apple hardware. I have never liked any of Apple's services, and other than an occasional free trial have never used them long enough to pay a subscription. From what I saw yesterday, Apple just piddled all over itself with their services event. Apple was not prepared to make half of them available yet, nor did they give many details, and that suggests to me they are very clueless and ill prepared for those services. The two services that were made available both are extremely underwhelming. Financial experts are saying  Card is nothing special as has already been done by many companies like Amazon. Apple made no attempt to even compete in rewards with other companies. And from what I've seen trying to use the  New+ service it truly blows chunks. Why mix magazines in with news articles? Why use a clunky, crappy interface. What did they do with News Stand. It would have been a better interface than displaying scanned images of magazines like Smithsonian which have zero text formatting options, and magazines like National Geographic which does have a very few text formatting options but still looks bad in the News app interface. Meh... There is no way in hell I will pay for any of their services as long as they suck that bad. I will keep buying Apple devices as long as I can afford to, I have a new iPhone XR arriving today, but their services are over priced and not competitive enough to make me spend a single penny on any of them.

Once upon a time those same financial experts said Apple should not have entered brick-and-mortal retail and now they are the most profitable retailer (on a per square foot basis) globally. Those same financial experts also said the iPod would fail when it was first announced because Apple was late to the digital music segment and was proprietary. They also said iPhone would fail because it had no hardware keyboard and they offered nothing compelling over Blackberry & Nokia. Need I go on?