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Apple+?
Feb 22, 2023 18:00:19 GMT -8
Post by alwaysorange on Feb 22, 2023 18:00:19 GMT -8
Generally espn and Fox are part of your cable fee. Whether you watch them or not they are there. They aren't an extra. Apple tv is an extra.
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Post by drunkandstoopidbeav on Feb 22, 2023 18:19:30 GMT -8
Generally espn and Fox are part of your cable fee. Whether you watch them or not they are there. They aren't an extra. Apple tv is an extra. If you're paying for cable to see all your football you're probably paying too much. We finally dropped cable except for internet and went to a Roku, later to firestick, added streaming (use FUBO now), we get more sports/football now and saved about a hundred a month. $100>$7. We can't get on demand porn with this setup though, no loss for us. |
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Apple+?
Feb 22, 2023 18:30:51 GMT -8
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Post by Judge Smails on Feb 22, 2023 18:30:51 GMT -8
Generally espn and Fox are part of your cable fee. Whether you watch them or not they are there. They aren't an extra. Apple tv is an extra. Again, not free. Your point? |
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Apple+?
Feb 22, 2023 18:33:58 GMT -8
Post by jimbeav on Feb 22, 2023 18:33:58 GMT -8
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Apple+?
Feb 22, 2023 18:47:11 GMT -8
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Post by spudbeaver on Feb 22, 2023 18:47:11 GMT -8
I just don't see the casual football watcher getting a subscription to apple. While other leagues can turn on the tv and watch their teams for "free" we get to subscribe and pay to watch our teams. What leagues these days can get all their games on "free" TV? Most games are cable or streaming these days and people are paying for them. They've got a subscription for something, just might have to tweak their subscriptions for a few months. Independent Notre Dame. |
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Post by spudbeaver on Feb 22, 2023 18:48:27 GMT -8
Generally espn and Fox are part of your cable fee. Whether you watch them or not they are there. They aren't an extra. Apple tv is an extra. Fox is free for me. With ABC, NBC, and CBS. HD to boot! |
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Apple+?
Feb 22, 2023 19:00:17 GMT -8
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Post by Judge Smails on Feb 22, 2023 19:00:17 GMT -8
Generally espn and Fox are part of your cable fee. Whether you watch them or not they are there. They aren't an extra. Apple tv is an extra. Fox is free for me. With ABC, NBC, and CBS. HD to boot! Potato antenna? |
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EOBeav
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Post by EOBeav on Feb 22, 2023 19:04:04 GMT -8
Do you still have to have an Apple product to be able to subscribe to Apple+? If so, they've alienated half of the fan base.
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Post by beaver94 on Feb 22, 2023 19:40:19 GMT -8
Do you still have to have an Apple product to be able to subscribe to Apple+? If so, they've alienated half of the fan base. I’m pretty sure the answer is mostly no, you don’t need an apple product. I think you do need an Apple ID which is probably why Mike84 had to use iTunes to sign up. I’d hope there would be a way to do it without iTunes. |
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Post by treasurevalleybeav on Feb 22, 2023 20:25:51 GMT -8
It’s similar to any streaming service, in that you need an account and login. HBO max and Hulu are no different. I got Apple TV/streaming to not miss any Mariner games and actually kept it year around. Has some pretty cool original programming.
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Apple+?
Feb 22, 2023 20:28:07 GMT -8
Post by irimi on Feb 22, 2023 20:28:07 GMT -8
I have two android TV's and two Amazon Fire TV sticks which all have the Apple+ app loaded on them. It's an app (edit for accuracy) "streaming service", it is not hardware. I was right there with Jim on this whole anti-Apple thing. My wife wanted the app to watch Ted Lasso, so I jumped through the hoops to get it on our Roku stick. Getting the app was easy. Getting an account to use it was horrible. Having an apple account wasn't good enough. I had to install iTunes on my PC. How's that for stupid? To watch Apple TV on my Roku stick, I had to install iTunes on my PC. Because Apple. You have to "pay" for Apple TV (free at the time) through the iTunes store. By the time I got our free subscription set up and the credit card that they required me to have in iTunes, even though it was a free subscription, removed, and after having dealt with password hell in my Apple account and my iTunes account, I swore to my wife that we would absolutely never ever actually subscribe to Apple TV. I was just looking forward to the day that I would uninstall the app on Roku. But, then, she had lots of things that she liked on it and I ended up buying her a 1-year subscription to Apple TV for Valentine's Day. But I was still pissed off because there is no Apple TV app for my Android phone. I can watch Netflix on my phone and Amazon prime on my phone and HBO Max on my phone... But no Apple TV app. Turns out, though, that I can watch it on my Android phone through a browser. Still pisses me off that they won't make the app available for Android phones. But at least I have a subscription if football ends up there. That does seem to be a stupid business idea. But I also question the intelligence behind having a hardware product called AppleTV and a streaming service named AppleTV+. |
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Apple+?
Feb 22, 2023 20:30:05 GMT -8
Post by irimi on Feb 22, 2023 20:30:05 GMT -8
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Post by irimi on Feb 22, 2023 20:31:51 GMT -8
When I had Dish, it was an extra fee to get Pac 12 Network anyway. AppleTV+ is only like $6 a month and that buys a lot more than just Pac-12 Network. Let's do it.
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Post by escott58 on Feb 22, 2023 20:42:35 GMT -8
I guess I'm the only one hoping for a deal with the other evil empire, Amazon. I don't have a Prime subscription, but would buy one pretty quickly if Pac-12 went that route.
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2ndGenBeaver
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Post by 2ndGenBeaver on Feb 22, 2023 21:35:11 GMT -8
I dislike Apple immensely. This inspite of the fact that my BiL is a pretty high-up dude in Apple. The level of lock in (device, service, content) bugs me. It took me a while to get mostly disentangled from Apple, but I did it, and my life is better for it.
That said, I just want GeorgeK to do something, anything. Land some expansion schools, land a media deal with Apple, dispel some of this uncertainty. The UCLA/USC lameness caught us all flat-footed, but he is paid to react, and it would be nice if he could become proactive about some aspect of the Pac10 + mystery guests future before the vultures start circling (start landing? they seem to be circling). The wimpy statement of solidarity didn't give me any warm fuzzies. Heck, it was so generic and non-committal that USC and UCLA would probably still sign that document now....though they are so sketch that it wouldn't surprise me if in 5-6 years time they will be attempting to rejoin the Pac-16/20 in order to "continue their commitment to reducing their carbon footprint" or something like that.
So I am ready to whip out my credit card and sign up for Apple TV (or sign up for iTunes and then AppleTV) if it means we have some clarity on that fact that the Conference of Champions will have games there. Um, right after I cancel Sling though.
Go Beavers!
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