Victor Marks
On this special episode of the AppleInsider Podcast, Daniel Eran Dilger joins us from Cupertino to talk about the announcements made at Apple's Services-centric March 25th event, where Apple News+, Apple Card, Apple Arcade, and Apple TV+ were all on display.
AppleInsider editor Victor Marks and writer Daniel Eran Dilger answer discuss:
- Apple announced a lot of things, but only one material product - the titanium Apple Card. Victor is excited about the potential for good personal finance guidance, Dan is more optimistic about the spread of Apple Pay with rewards as an incentive.
- Apple News+ is a service where we're still learning what will or won't be possible to be distributed through it, but the concept of machine learning recommendations with human curation for news quality seems like a win. Publishing is changing, and Apple has certainly tried to be the future of publishing in the past. Maybe this is the attempt that works?
- Apple Arcade: Victor is in love with the idea of games that are paid apps, games that attempt to tell stories other than first-person shooters, having a chance to be art.
- Apple TV+ is the streaming service we've been talking about all these months. We don't know exactly when it will debut, and Dan has some question as to whether iTunes is going to be on the third party TVs or this TV service will be there, exactly. Victor thinks there are some good shows in the works, but is concerned about the costs Apple might ask. Dan isn't, thinking Apple knows how to price accordingly.
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Show note links:
- Editorial: Apple is playing the long game with Apple TV+ & Apple Arcade as it always does
- The Wall Street Journal bets Apple News partnership will lead to new subscribers, not cannibalization [u]
- Apple announces Apple TV+ service with Apple's unique programming, coming this Fall
- Apple Arcade will service Apple's one billion gamers on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- Apple Card offers simplified and secure Goldman Sachs-backed credit card with daily rewards
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I suppose Apple is big enough to have sections focused on the creative side: Final Cut, Logic Pro, etc. and the consumer side.
But the pro apps are buried under "Support" on Apple's home page. And there's no sign of the other Apple apps: Numbers, GarageBand, Keynote. (They're under Support->App Store.)
Apple used to be VERY proud that people used their products to create things, and that was front & center in their branding. Now they've shifted to watching, listening, playing, & spending.
I'm sure there's a lot more money to be made from the masses sitting on their butts consuming stuff, but I miss the focus on making tools to let people create amazing things.
It's true that merchants pay credit card companies a fee, but what very few people know is that studies show that people spend 20% more when they use a credit card to pay than when they use cash. So that fee paid by merchants isn't as bad as it seems since credit cards directly cause 20% more sales. On another matter, it's not the fee that causes merchants to avoid Amex; it's the date Amex pays the merchant. I'll let you research that.
This Podcast says Apple originally partnered with AT&T when the iPhone came out. My recollection is that Apple originally partnered with Cingular. Then AT&T bought Cingular.
After a couple of hours of using News+ on macOS I was able to figure out how to view the Wall Street Journal or certain other papers. But I couldn't find the LA Times. Perhaps Apple won't let Canadians access the LA Times. That's a story there. But also, I find the News App extremely difficult to use. It's not unfixable but it's a disaster in my opinion. For example, the search box is in a dark grey font on a light grey background, which makes it hard to use. It looks like a disabled control! But that's just one of a dozen big usability issues. At this point I won't recommend News+ to my friends because I have a reputation to maintain.