Internet Apple has considered Disney or Netflix to buy as a private videostreamingdienst to start. That writes business newspaper The Wall Street Journal . The company decided in the end to a partnership with various streaming services.
The purchase of Disney or Netflix, Apple had given the opportunity a few years ago to start a videostreamingdienst, instead of only now. Or Apple calls is entered into, and how far that would have come, reports the newspaper.
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Apple, in contrast to earlier rumors, according to the WSJ do not plan to own the series and shows for free as a promotion for its streaming service. How much that should cost or what for bundle to sit, is unknown. In the streaming service to sit according to the business newspaper, in each case, Starz, Showtime and HBO, for $ 9.99 per piece.
There will also be a nieuwsabonnement, which include WSJ itself, in addition to magazines such as People Magazine and Glamour . WSJ going the extra people assume to be the section with general news to fill for the Apple service, so claims the article.
The services are a change of strategy due to the lack of growth in the sales of iPhones, according to the newspaper. Director Tim Cook would since 2014 have driven that change, after it became clear that the growth of the iPhone would stop. The smartphone market stopped a few years ago to grow, while there was also no large countries are where Apple are smartphones don’t offer. Much of the growth from the first seven years came from the sales in new countries.
Apple will hold tonight at 18 pm (Belgian time) his own event, which presumably the new video service presents, together with a subscription for the reading of the news stories that are normally behind a betaalmuur. The manufacturer announces in any case, no new iPads, iMacs or AirPods, because of that, Apple has last week all announced.
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