Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks

Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by awinder on Sunday January 13, 2019 @10:20AM (#18896973)

I feel like apple has definitely matured a bit on the biz side that they’re effectively making drastic culture change within a few quarters of sales pace slowdowns, considering the years where they let rot fester the last time the company was in trouble. Maybe they’ve learned lessons from the past or from Microsoft’s journey but in either case, it’s promising that they seem to understand what some of the big deals are when committing to services business line.

I also think apple has one of the most compelling digital movie purchase systems so it’ll be interesting to see if this follows the iTunes music biz model where they expand to more platforms and take over a lot of the revenue. The system is way more stable at higher quality than competitors like vudu, and they’re trying to do the right thing by avoiding this push to charge more than $20 per movie. Also backdating purchases to upgrade 1080p movies to 4K was a very slick move.

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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by jordache on Sunday January 13, 2019 @10:40AM (#18897047)

> also think apple has one of the most compelling digital movie purchase systems

People don't decide which platform to purchase a movie from based on how compelling the streaming technology is. It needs to be a platform that's accessible on their device firstly.

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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by scarface74 on Sunday January 13, 2019 @11:40AM (#18897325)

If you purchase a movie from either iTunes, Amazon Prime, Vudu, or Google Play, you can use Movies Anywhere to sync your purchases across all of the services.

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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by bestnameever on Sunday January 13, 2019 @12:19PM (#18897535)

Paramount, Lionsgate, and MGM do not participate in Movies Anywhere and movies from those studios will not sync across services.

https://help.moviesanywhere.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150052819...

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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by badwolf on Sunday January 13, 2019 @10:59AM (#18897135)

Which seems to be something Apple is starting to expand upon, with Apple Music now available on Android and Amazon Echo, as well as iTunes and AirPlay coming natively to Samsung TVs

https://www.cnet.com/g00/news/apple-itunes-airplay-2-coming-...

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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by jdillaaa on Sunday January 13, 2019 @11:59AM (#18897421)

I did not know Apple Music was on Android. I wonder if they're using FairPlay (used on iOS and macOS) to do DRM or if they use Widevine?

Apple Music's recently released web portal uses Widevine to do DRM (same as Netflix and Spotify web) https://tools.applemusic.com/en-us

FairPlay on Android surely has some bugs if this is the case ...

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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by mikhailt on Sunday January 13, 2019 @10:49AM (#18897090)

Deleted due to misunderstanding.

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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by SyneRyder on Sunday January 13, 2019 @11:07AM (#18897173)

> In this case, he didn't say anything about streaming tech

They did, they commented that iTunes had better streaming than Vudu:

"The system is way more stable at higher quality than competitors like vudu..."

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Re:Apple's famous walled garden is starting to show cracks by jordache on Sunday January 13, 2019 @11:00AM (#18897138)

i'm making a generalization of how the mass majority of consumers behave.

Most people are not apple fanatics. Most people do not need to purchase the movie and value "portability" of such digital format. Most movies are not worthy of repeat views, esp at different locations. Most people do not differentiate that much between HD and 4K when watching at home, on a setup that is not a home theatre.

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