Apple is working on the introduction of advertisements on Apple TV+ in the United Kingdom, according to The Telegraph. Apple has apparently been in...
  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1112·
    5 months ago

    Your daily reminder that by paying for streaming services, you’re receiving a worse product than the alternative.

    • Frog@lemmy.caEnglish
      351·
      5 months ago

      I think we passed that point after the ads in the App Store,News app, Books app, and Music app.

      • Rade0nfighter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        5 months ago

        Agree they’ve being easing their way in for a while. My point was specifically about advertising within the content itself which would be a new line crossed.

        Edit: actually yes they did do this with Apple News didn’t they! (Which is why I stopped paying for it).

    • ben@lemmy.zipEnglish
      27·
      5 months ago

      Advertising in general has been a growing revenue stream for Apple from my understanding. That “anti-tracking” they added a few iOS versions back also conveniently increased Apple’s ad revenue because other advertisers didn’t get the same data that Apple would just have by default.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        5 months ago

        I’ve lost count of the volume of times I’ve been downvoted for stating that Apples transition to a services based company guaranteed they would become the enemy of every users privacy, regardless of all their virtue signaling about privacy.

        Meanwhile, in the 2020’s you can not longer do offline dictation at all, on a several thousand dollar machine, without agreeing to sending PII and transcripts of all your dictations to Apple servers… You could do completely offline dictation a decade ago, on a machine that was about 1/10th as powerful.

  • Lexam@lemmy.caEnglish
    451·
    5 months ago

    Oh no! I hope this doesn’t affect my pirated copies.

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
    42·
    5 months ago

    I can’t wait for the advertisers to start dictating the content of the programming to help sell ads. Because that’s coming next. Let’s totally wipe the premium sheen off premium streaming TV.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    36·
    5 months ago

    step 1: position yourself has high quality, low cost compared to the others

    step 2: win awards for programming furthering the high quality of your service

    step 3: raise prices

    step 4: cancel the shows people raved about

    step 5: bring in ads

    step 6: ???

  • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    26·
    5 months ago

    While there’s a bit of a focus here on what it’d “mean” for Apple to do this … more broadly, which streaming services don’t have ads by now? Prime and Netflix do, I know that much.

    Basically it seems the industry has done exactly what cable did IIRC … once they’ve got you by the balls they’ll squeeze you as dry as they can.

    Apart from finding a local hardcopy rental shop (I have and am trying to use it as much as possible), or you know, just not watching, “reverting” back to piracy is likely the only way to react here.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

      The problem is mathematics.

      Capitalism requires that profits always increase, but we live on a finite planet, with a finite amount of land, a finite amount of resources, and a finite number of humans… always, eventually, the ONLY option to continue this dichotomy is to squeeze your existing customer base, and extract as much value from them as possible (by devaluing your product). Unfortunately customers do not hold unlimited value, so the house of cards will collapse one way or the other.

      Clearly, the only solution is to wage a war on mathematics.

      • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Thats never the ONLY option, its just that the biggest winners in capitalism also make the rules, so they choose to always be the winners

        There are other options of course, but those require the proles choosing something besides escapism.

  • Thoralf Will@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    I only see Apple TV+ as a bonus to the Premium subscription. But if they really fuck it up like this, I will unbundle my subscription and cancel Apple TV+.

    Fuck ads!

    • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      5 months ago

      It’s never just a “free tier” unfortunately. Most times these headlines pop up, it’s “We’re increasing our base subscription cost, but don’t worry! You can keep paying the old price if you’re ok with ads.”

      • ItsComplicatedEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        Paying for ads is a terrible idea companies have forced into the narrative, without users really caring.

        I choose not to pay for ads.