‘South Park’ Nears $500M Deal for U.S. Streaming Rights(bloomberg.com) |
‘South Park’ Nears $500M Deal for U.S. Streaming Rights(bloomberg.com) |
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
(Submitted title was "‘South Park’ Nears $500 Million bid for its US Streaming Rights, Apple won't bid".)
Did Bloomberg change the title or did the submitter editorialize? This is the only mention of Apple and yeah, Apple was never going to pick this up because it’s a TV-MA program and they’re not trying to go there with their streaming service.
This is such a reach for Apple concern trolling.
I changed the title to "Apple won't bid on 'South Park' streaming rights fearing controversy and China" in order to better reflect that Apple doesn't want to hurt its brand with controversial programming, as you mentioned. I would rather make the title "Apple won't bid on 'South Park' streaming rights fearing controversial programming that could hurt its brand and China," but that doesn't fit withing HN's length limit.
Edit: Apple has a history in cooperating with China's censorship, so it's not much of a stretch. If so, Apple wouldn't say that's the reason they didn't bid, for obvious reasons.
Edit: I know that South Park's controversial/adult nature could be a factor in their decision. It says that in the article, and it's why I decided to change the title to include that.
Edit: Alright, I suppose I am in the wrong here. I'll change the title to more closely match the original article.
Apple isn't specifically turning down South Park because of controversy/China. They never said why and to be honest it could be just as simple as it doesn't fit in with the rest of AppleTV+. Which IMHO it really doesn't.
Edit: you get an upvote for being a cool dude/ette about it.
Apple profits from iPhones; Apple conforms to censorship to keep their biggest (population-wise) customer.
Companies are driven by money, not goodwill. Apple only pushed for privacy because it was a selling point.
I wonder if we’re witnessing the shift of economic gravity center and if companies like Apple are running long term analyses of the costs of protecting their brand in one market at the risk of tarnishing it in another.
I'd buy a subscription in a heartbeat.