Apple TV+ reportedly loses $1 billion a year, and that’s okay—for now

The Information report claims notable losses for Apple's only service in the red.

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[jhodge]

Whenever I watch an Apple production on TV+, one of my thoughts is "it must be nice to have all the money". All of their stuff just looks great; obviously nobody cut any corners on production, casting, or all the myriad post-production bits. Which is not to say I like everything, but I haven't run into anything yet where it looks like they went cheap.

Contrast with Amazon Prime Video, where a few of their "originals" have given off a distinct low-budget vibe.

 

[jhodge]

Well, considering that Netflix is the home of “make it just barely good enough that people keep watching”, with multiple filmmakers saying that Netflix’s only request is for characters and voiceovers to keep explaining their actions so people doing laundry while half-watching can follow…

I’m not at all surprised you wouldn’t understand. You neither care about nor value quality, Ted.

Well, there is a huge market for that sort of background noise/filler content. Or just undemanding content in general - see the entire (and AFAIK quite successful) Hallmark Channel. If everything Netflix did was dreck, I'd probably agree with you, but I can't blame them too much for catering to that market segment.