Apple is losing more than $1 billion a year on its streaming service Apple TV+, the Information reported today, citing two people familiar with the matter.

Apple has spent more than $5 billion a year on content since launching Apple TV+ in 2019 but trimmed that budget by around $500 million last year, the report said.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      They can extract value from just the existence of your account. If they wanted to run an ad campaign to convince people to use them they can cross reference your email and any other demographic info.

      Someone - maybe not you but someone like you - will buy an Apple product because of this.

      Source: I used to work for a big data company

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          19 hours ago

          That is pocket change for Apple. They have so much money they literally don’t know what to do with it.

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            19 hours ago

            Do you go around throwing your pocket change into the streets?

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              15 hours ago

              So since Apple is probably not just throwing money away… what other reason could they have?