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.

  • Crashumbc@lemmy.world
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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?