streaming wars
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When Behemoths Like Apple Hoard Cultural Touchstones, It’s a Recipe for Disaster
The holidays are looking a little less Linus this year for Peanuts fans hoping to catch Charlie Brown specials on network television, as has been tradition for decades.
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Apple’s New Streaming Channel Is Like Old MTV
In the next few months, we’re likely to see streaming services begin to show some strain as the pipeline of new content dries up due to pandemic production delays. Ahead of this inevitable turn, Apple’s digging into the buzz bin to bring back the forgotten medium of set-it-and-forget-it music videos.
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Apple, Like the Rest of Us, Does Not Want to Pay for Quibi
Oh, Quibi. Quibi, Quibi, Quibi. Whatever will happen to you? No viewers want to pay you for your service, and now it seems not even Apple, a company very keen to jump-start its own streaming TV empire, is interested.
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Amazon’s Next-Gen Fire TV Streaming Stick Should Be Faster, But Use Less Power
Amazon’s annual products and services event is always a dizzying carousel of shiny new Alexa-enabled gadgets. But with services becoming a bigger focus for tech giants competing in the ever-crowded streaming wars, it was a pretty safe bet that Amazon would have a couple of new Fire TV products in store.