How Will AppleTV Plus Stack Up Against Other Streaming Services?
By Chris Evangelista/March 25, 2019 12:19 pm EST
The above video is emotional and rousing, featuring an incredible group of creators offering up powerful speeches about the nature of storytelling. Sounds great, right? But what about the programs on AppleTV+ themselves? How will they achieve the masterful storytelling everyone is talking about here?
There are pros: the service will be ad free; it will be available on the AppleTV app, and all Apple devices; and perhaps best of all, everything will be available to download and watch offline. But so much was left unsaid – we don’t even know the pricing. Of the shows announced, only two seemed genuinely interesting – the Steven Spielberg-produced Amazing Stories reboot, and Little America, a show from Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon. Spielberg’s presence was particularly noteworthy, since the last few months have focused on the famed filmmaker’s disdain for streaming – even though we’ve known he’s been involved with Apple since last year. Perhaps the presence of Spielberg, and others, is ultimately Apple’s secret weapon.
