Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jaimie Vandenbergh Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: OT: Apple TV news for Asimov fans Date: 25 Jul 2020 09:56:37 GMT Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net GqriMDa0BVZtOfShdABeygFbUX9dtTIVdvu2MCTTjcwr9F4QvK Cancel-Lock: sha1:wJ/XJPSG4AC3+6fhs6J/GcQ07Mg= User-Agent: Usenapp/0.78.7/l beta for MacOS Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.sys.mac:145855 On 25 Jul 2020 at 10:43:10 BST, "Andy Hewitt" wrote: > Chris Ridd wrote: >> >> They released For All Mankind an episode a week, so ... well who knows >> but given Apple TV+'s relative dearth of material I'm sure they'll want >> to spread Foundation out a bit. > > Yeah, it’s the lack of material that made me think it not such good value > as a service at the moment. I can see it being abandoned in the not too > distant future to be honest, it just isn’t coming anywhere near to Netflix > or Amazon Prime (even without the ‘unlimited’ extra subscription), as a > value for money service. The others have one or two decades more backlog. It adds up. Subbing for a month occasionally and slurping down all the things you want to watch is a way to go. Cheers - Jaimie -- "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing" -- George Bernard Shaw