In 2022, Apple started broadcasting one or two MLB games every Friday night with a rotating cast of teams. Last year, although users had to sign up for an account, the games were f... More
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Apple Will Require a Subscription to Watch ‘Friday Night Baseball’ This Year (CNBC)
Apple TV+ Hikes Subscription Price For First Time, Will Now Cost $6.99 Per Month (THR)
The company also raised prices for Apple Music and the Apple One bundle.... More
Apple TV Plus Continues to Score Content Wins
The Apple TV Plus streaming service continued to make strides on the content front in Apple’s third quarter (ended June 25), Apple CEO Tim Cook said July 28, on an earnings call.... More
Apple Launches iPhone Security Tool to Block Targeted Attacks (Bloomberg)
Apple introduced a security tool for iPhone, iPad and Mac devices that is designed to prevent targeted cyberattacks on high-profile users such as activists, journalists and governm... More
Apple Music Launches New DJ Mixes in Spatial Audio (TechCrunch)
Apple is launching DJ mixes in spatial audio with Dolby Atmos on Apple Music, the company announced on Wednesday. The company says the launch brings listeners into a truly immersiv... More
Apple TV Plus Joins MLB’s Team … and Live Sports Will Never be the Same
What will TV sports be like in the hands of a company that just made $83.4 billion in a single quarter? We’re about to find out.... More
Apple Takes Swing at Sports With Major League Baseball Rights Deal (Variety)
Apple will have exclusive rights to telecast two “Friday Night Baseball” games each week — totaling about 50 per year — in the U.S. and to eight countries overseas, via i... More
Apple Gets Into Sport With Friday Night Baseball (BTN)
Baseball fans in the UK and six other countries will join with those in the U.S. for a new weekly doubleheader with live pre- and postgame shows. Friday Night Baseball follows a ne... More
Apple Swings for the Fences With ‘Serious’ MLB Talks (NextTV)
Should ongoing talks with Major League Baseball generate runs, it would mark Apple’s first move into live sports, opening a new front in its increasingly serious efforts to make ... More
MLB, Apple in Talks on Exclusive Streaming Deal (Sportico)
Major League Baseball is in talks with Apple about streaming live games, according to multiple people familiar with the plan. Should a deal happen, it would be Apple’s largest pu... More
Apple Building a Massive New Campus Straddling L.A., Culver City (Variety)
The complex will encompass more than 550,000 square feet once completed. An Apple rep said it will be a “mixed use” facility but did not have details on what kind of production... More
Apple’s Big Event Stressed Its Major Focus on Streaming (The Verge)
Apple’s big product event today was all about iPhones, iPads, and the latest generation of its smartwatch — but make no mistake, it also underscored Apple’s increasingly aggr... More
Apple in Early Talks to Stream NFL Sunday Ticket Games (NBC)
Disney's ESPN and Amazon are also in the mix. Many major tech and media companies are competing for streaming subscribers and spending big on original content.... More
Apple TV Plus Moves to Get Off the Promotional Juice (Next TV)
Apple is cutting the one-year free trial to three months starting July 1.... More
Will Apple Be the Next Tech Giant to Buy a Studio? (THR)
The iPhone maker has a huge entertainment industry footprint, but its streamer Apple TV+ lacks a huge library, like "a mansion with hardly any furniture in it."... More
Apple Music Begins Rolling Out Lossless Streaming, Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio (The Verge)
Millions of tracks now offer immersive, Dolby Atmos-powered mixes that Apple claims deliver “true multi-dimensional sound and clarity.”... More
Apple Working on Combined TV Box, Speaker to Revive Home Efforts (Bloomberg)
The company is working on a product that would combine an Apple TV set-top box with a HomePod speaker and include a camera for video conferencing through a connected TV and other s... More
Apple Users Spent $1.8B on Apps in Last Week of 2020 (Bloomberg)
Apple said that most of the spending between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve went to games.... More
Why AWS is Bringing Apple’s MacOS to its Cloud (Protocol)
Apple developers will be able to use AWS-managed Mac Minis to test their Mac and iOS applications, AWS announced on the first day of the virtual re:Invent event. The new Mac instan... More
What Apple’s New Mac Products, M1 Chip Mean for Hollywood (THR)
Combined with a new operating system, Apple asserted that its new Mac products would offer notably faster CPU and integrated graphics performance, among its list of features. Some ... More