“Planet of the Apps” and a “Carpool Karaoke” spinoff.
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AppleTV+, reviewed
Will See, The Morning Show, or Dickinson become AppleTV+’s breakout hit? We have our doubts. AppleTV+AppleTV+ is here. The service — $4.99 a month to most of us but free for a year to all folks who buy certain new Apple devices — debuts Friday, November 1, with a small initial slate of original programming and no library of popular shows acquired from other studios (like Friends or The Office on Netflix).
The service aims to make watching TV easier by incorporating lots of other streaming services into its central hub. (You can read more about its promises here.) But you still need to subscribe to those other services to get access to their content through AppleTV+. And you need to subscribe to AppleTV+ to get access to its original programming.
Read Article >Apple’s Eddy Cue says technology companies have a responsibility to combat fake news
Apple’s senior vice president of software and services, Eddy Cue, says that since most people are receiving their news online through devices, technology companies have a special responsibility to the people who depend on them to receive that news.
“We wanted Apple News to be available to everyone, but we wanted to vet and be sure that the Apple News providers are legitimate,” said Cue at the Code Media conference at the Ritz-Carlton in Dana Point, Calif., this evening. “We’re very concerned about all the clickbait and how that’s driving a lot of the news coverage.”
Read Article >Apple has a new TV show, so will it finally buy a big media company? No, says Eddy Cue.
Eddy Cue Asa MathatApple now has a new TV show, a reality series showing app developers vying for new investment dollars. It’s called “Planet of the Apps.”
Kitschy.
Read Article >Apple’s new TV show has Jessica Alba, Gwyneth Paltrow and Will.i.am telling people why their app ideas are terrible
Apple is making a TV show. It’s called “Planet of the Apps,” and it’s literally celebrities telling app developers why their apps will never be profitable and will never be used by anyone. The apps are judged by a star-studded panel: Jessica Alba, Will.i.am and Gwyneth Paltrow, among others.
Instead of an elevator pitch, developers and entrepreneurs make an “escalator pitch.” Yes, the pitch is made on an escalator.
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