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by jandrese 3096 days ago
The "Apple buys Disney" seemed more like people just dreaming up what they would do with umpteen trillion dollars and making a blog post out of it.

Apple buying Netflix makes slightly more sense given that their own streaming video offerings are not exactly taking the world by storm. I have no idea what they would do with Netflix after they bought them though. Apple's STB offerings already have a Netflix app I'm sure.
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SimbaOnSteroids 3096 days ago
They could let them keep doing they're thing as they seem to be a company that seems to know how to run themselves, also Netflix could provide a massive amount of 'free' product placement for apple products.
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jandrese 3096 days ago
Like every Netflix show now has the main characters wearing iWatches and talking on the iPhones?

I'm also not sold on "We bought you out, now keep doing what you were doing before." What's the point of spending all of that money if you're not going to meddle? Netflix's paltry profits can't be all that enticing to Apple.

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SimbaOnSteroids 3096 days ago
Black Mirror Season 4: maybe a spoiler?

In season 4 of Black Mirror, every branded piece of tech was Apple. That's just an example. There was an instance where the Apple logo was featured fully on the screen for a fraction of a second. An entire episode leveraged the creepy factor of Boston Dynamics. This obviously an extreme example but imagine every Netflix show is wall to wall Apple products. In the age of chord cutters this becomes a rather powerful tool to have.

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