[Electronics-Talk] FW: [GTTsupport] FW: [Lv-ottawa] Apple unveils streaming service, iPhone with more cameras

Wed Sep 11 16:35:51 UTC 2019

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From: "Kim Kilpatrick" <kimjkilpatrick at gmail.com>
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Subject: [GTTsupport] FW: [Lv-ottawa] Apple unveils streaming service,
iPhone with more cameras
Date: 
Wed, 11 Sep 2019 08:50:12 -0400

Hi again all.
And here is an angle about apple prices and services in Canada.
Kim

Technology & Science

Apple unveils streaming service, iPhone with more cameras

Apple Inc. revealed on Tuesday that its streaming TV service will kick
off
November 1 and cost $5.99 a month in Canada, as the tech giant reaches a
turning point where it focuses as much on services as its hardware and
software. It also unveiled new models of its iPhone, with better cameras.

Apple TV+ will be available in 100 countries; new iPhone, iPad, Mac
customers get 1 year free

The Associated Press, September 10, 2019

CEO Tim Cook speaks at an Apple event at the company's headquarters in
Cupertino, California. (Stephen Lam/Reuters)

Apple Inc revealed on Tuesday that its streaming TV service will kick off
Nov. 1 and cost $5.99 a month in Canada, as the tech giant reaches a
turning
point where it focuses as much on services as its hardware and software.

Apple TV+ will be available in 100 countries and buyers of an iPhone,
iPad
or Mac will get a free year of streaming television service, the company
announced at an event streamed live online.

 The announcement puts Apple a few steps ahead of Disney Plus, the other
big
streaming newcomer that's launching a little over a week later, on Nov.
12. 
Apple TV+ will also be three dollars cheaper than Disney's $8.99 monthly
price tag.

The two steaming platforms add to a growing number of alternatives to
cable
in Canada, which include Netflix, Bell Media's Crave, CBC Gem and Amazon
Prime Video.

New iPhone models

Apple also unveiled Tuesday the annual upgrades to the iPhone, which
resemble recent models, but with better cameras and new colours. The
most-expensive models, the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max, will now
have three cameras on the back, including a new, wider-angle one to
squeeze
more of the landscape into the picture. They start at $1,379 Cdn.

The cheaper model called the iPhone 11 will start at $979. It now gets
two
lenses instead of one. The new phones come out Sept. 20.

Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing presents the
new
iPhone 11 Pro at an Apple event at their headquarters in Cupertino,
California. 
(Stephen Lam/Reuters)

While the iPhone still makes up more than half of Apple's sales,
Tuesday's
event may have nudged it off centre stage after a decade in the
limelight.

Apple long boasted about its competitive advantage over rivals such as
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which makes handsets, or Alphabet Inc's
Google,
which provides the Android operating system for most of the world's
phones.
Apple touted controlling both the hardware and software, resulting in
polished products that commanded premium prices and captured most of the
smart phone industry's profits.

At the fall event in the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California -
typically Apple's splashiest and dedicated to its flagship devices - Apple
is cementing a third element to its focus: hardware, software and
services.

The new strategy, which Apple hinted at an event in March where it gave
some
details about the streaming TV service, comes as iPhone sales have
declined
year-over-year for the past two fiscal quarters and investors are fixed
on
the growth potential for services.

Video game service in App Store

Apple also announced its video game service, Apple Arcade, will be a tab
in
the App Store and available starting Sept. 19, costing $5.99 a month in
Canada, with a one-month free trial.

CEO Tim Cook speaks at an Apple event at the company's headquarters in
Cupertino, California. (Stephen Lam/Reuters)

"This is the first time we'll get to see Apple's strategy with all three
parts of the business," said Ben Bajarin, an analyst with Creative
Strategies.

With no historic library of television content of its own, Apple will
sell
its own service even as it already serves as a reseller of other channels
like HBO and, analysts believe, takes a cut of sales. Bajarin said Apple's
challenge is to persuade consumers that its family of devices, from its
set-top box to

phones, are the best one-stop place to watch shows, despite the fact that
Netflix has yet to come on board with the integrated viewing system.
(Netflix
remains available as a standalone app on Apple devices, and its shows
appear
in search results in the Apple TV app.)

"Netflix is sort of gaping void" in the Apple TV app "but they've got
Amazon
and all the channels on board," Bajarin said. "The vast majority of
content
providers are playing nice with Apple TV."

As for the new model of the Apple's next internet-connected smartwatch,
it
features an always-on display that lets users check time and other
features
without raising or tapping it. Many competing watches already have that.

With files from The Canadian Press

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/apple-iphones-video-service-1.5277247

end of  article

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