Today's Apple product announcments...

[brooklynite]

Apple TV +: A new video streaming service featuring original content from folks like Steven Spielburg, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, JJ Abrams, and Oprah Winfrey

Apple TV Channels: a cable channel delivery service allowing ala carte ordering of programming on demand without advertising

Apple Arcade: an online video game subscription service

Apple News +: a monthly subscription service with access to 300 magazines and selected newspapers

Apple Card: a credit card without card number or security code, using built-in security of your iPhone and Apple Pay

[CincyDem]

1. AAPL down 1.86% as of 3:17EST...announcement doesn't seem to be gettin' the love.

Hard to say how this will all land. Apple always has its share of high emotions on both side. On on side, whatever they announce will be overpriced for what it is. On the other side, whatever they announce will have a transformative impact on the market.

Time will tell but the initial street reaction is "yawn".

(IMHO, the sleeper on this list is the credit card. That's a business model that could generate a lot of cash. The other stuff...meh.)

[brooklynite]

2. Apple stock ALWAYS falls when they make a product announcement...

The valuation of the new products is always baked in to the price a week or two before the rollout.

[CincyDem]

4. Fair point. buy the rumor, sell the news I guess. n/t

[LanternWaste]

10. Stock increase day of Ipad2 release as well as iPhone5, 5c and 5s

Always is not an accurate descriptor.

[brooklynite]

15. Not new product lines

[Sherman A1]

5. I agree the Credit Card

or credit service could be a game changer.

[Auggie]

3. What I REALLY want from Apple (someday) ...

is an Apple internet service provider option.

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Interesting new announcements from a marketing standpoint. Growth in hardware has slowed, so Apple is becoming a player in content.

[RobinA]

6. What I Want

from Apple is either an affordable phone or an expensive phone that lasts more than a couple years.

[Auggie]

9. I just traded in my 6+s and got a $250 credit on a new Xr

Better than paying full price.

The Samsung Galaxy S10 isn't a bargain either: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/samsung-galaxy-s10-news-and-rumors/

[brooklynite]

16. I could see them offer an MVNA off the backbone of a phone system...

...or a branded service off Verizon or a major cable company, but the infrastructure to put in a national (or even major urban centers) ISP would be prohibitive.

[ooky]

19. This was my thought too.

What I really need is an alternative to my broadband provider. As long as I have to pay my cable provider for internet access I still can't really cut the cord.

[jmowreader]

7. The thing I want from Apple is something they won't make

I want a MacBook Pro with iPhone functionality built into the chassis. This way I can go online from anywhere without having to tether my iPhone to the computer. Field service engineers would buy these things as fast as they could make them.

[Auggie]

12. Does anyone make that?

I'd take a tablet version too.

[jmowreader]

14. You can get an iPad that'll dial into a cell network...

...but all that does is Internet connectivity. (Which is a mistake they made - if they allowed you to use a Bluetooth earpiece the iPad would become a phablet.)

[Yavin4]

8. I think that we're getting max'd out on streaming services. n/t

[Auggie]

11. Yeah, though I expect some of them to eventually merge

[Yavin4]

13. I'm not subscribing to a streaming service just to watch one show. n/t

[Codeine]

17. I drop in and out of streaming services a lot.

I recently dropped Hulu for DC Universe (or whatever the fuck it’s called). I’ll keep that until I’ve completed the first season of Doom Patrol and then I’ll drop it for Britbox, which I’ll drop after a few months for whatever else I want. I can’t imagine paying for all of them at once.

[Auggie]

18. Same here ...

though admittedly, Netflix constantly adds good stuff that keeps me around for months.

[ooky]

21. Me too. I only need one at a time.

Once I've watched everything I want to watch on one streaming service I cancel and go to the next one. I've been on Prime for over a year now and still have lots of stuff left to watch.

[Volaris]

20. Ala carte television+ add free is A Thing who's time has come.

And anything that makes that mainstream, gets my attention, even if I'm not a fan of Apple.

[Blue_true]

22. The problem with Ala Carte ordering choices.

Is that some useful channels will die, like the History Channel and others, or they will use wall to wall advertising to make enough money to survive.

What I would like cable companies to do is set up a base choice (which they now do), then allow people to pick whatever else they want ala carte (which they don't do). While this won't protect all the valuable but thinly watched channels, it would protect the good ones in that class, IMO.

[Volaris]

23. Yes I would want this as well.

And if for say, 40 bucks a month I got all networks, plus 10 basic cables of my choosing, I'd be happy. I'd pay an extra percentage for add free for those, and 10 bucks a month for PBS and each premium (HBO) that I wanted.

If I wanted a basic outside of that 10, charge me an extra 10 bucks for it .

Because I'm tired of paying for Fox news and the golf channel, when I don't watch them because they're worthless to me.

[Blue_true]

24. I believe that once either Amazon, Netflix or Apple set up their own

inhouse cable company that sets up the pipe (fiber optic and future technologies that can reach homes free of the cable companies), the cable companies will be forced to adapt or die, they are already bleeding subscribers as people find other options. So, I believe soon the cable companies will be forced to allow some form of extensive ala carte selection to survive.

[Volaris]

27. Good.

[dustyscamp]

25. The only "Apple" product I'd buy is one covered in caramel

[Eko]

26. I have an inside tech person that has leaked Apples next new product.

It is without a doubt absolutely amazing, It will change society and have everlasting effects on humanity. It is the Apple link.

[ooky]

28. Good ol' Tim Apple.