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Well it is true. I would never find a lot of their series if I didn't use a TV/Movie aggregator that covers all the releases, including Apple+.
Some of my favs of theirs;
The issue, historically, has been access.
When it first launched you needed an Apple device to watch. Some folks may have bought an Apple TV, which is what Apple wanted, but that's not a big audience. I know people watch things on their phone, but not 30 minute episodes. You could watch it on a computer, but if you've got a nice big TV it's not happening. Yes I know you can hook things up to your TV, but it's another point against it.
Over the years they've added apps to Roku and Chromecast has shifted to Google TV which is also app based (and worse, but I digress). However some of this relies on people upgrading their devices and people aren't going to upgrade just for Apple TV.
So you can call it a 5+ year service, but really it's only been available for 1-2 years.
But now that you're outside the Apple bubble you're competing against Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO, etc.
Disney+ & (to a slightly lesser extent) HBO have figured this streaming market out. Every week these services offer me something new to watch. Disney+ has a weekly release of Daredevil, and by next week I'm watching Andor. HBO has a weekly release of White Lotus and two weeks later I'm watching The Last of Us.
If they can keep at it I'm sure they're get to where they want to be. But it's a long journey ahead and they're really just getting started.
The only show from AppleTV that managed to break out to the public is Severance. I heard they have other good shows but that's only from word of mouth, it's odd how they spend millions making them but don't bother advertising them much.
Ted Lasso did a great job of breaking out as well.
Did it? I love that show, but I don't hear about it anywhere.
Oh yeah, forgot about that one
…Ted Lasso?
It's not so much the marketing as the extremely niche high attention investment content.
It’s (unfortunately) very accurate, although I think they have some very high quality shows.
Yep, I've seen loads of shows I like on apple. It's bizarre that they don't push it
Not that anyone would know it, because they failed to market anything at all.
I don’t give a shit. This isn’t news, stop trying to get people to care. Fuck advertising and capitalism
My guy you're in the television sublemmy, not c/worldnews
Insane comment, it is absolutely relevant that AppleTV shows underperform due to lack of advertising. You don't care? You're literally in the TV community.
Fuck advertising and capitalism
Nobody asked.
Exactly