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by judge2020 2422 days ago
Apple's strategy seems to just give their service away for the next year or two (to anyone who buys an iPhone) and hope a few million people like their first-party shows. $5/month for the family (well, max. 6 people) is also not a hard thing to push for the iPhone demographic.
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Terretta 2422 days ago
Just like Amazon Prime. Let's not pretend most people are actually subscribing to it...

"As a Prime member, you can already watch thousands of popular movies and TV shows at no extra cost, including exclusives and award-winning Amazon Originals available in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. Save even more with exclusive deals on video purchases."

No 'extra cost'? All that content isn't free. I feel about this much as I do about cable subscriptions by default including the cost of ESPN and other sports channels:

May I not subsidize this, please?

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josteink 2422 days ago
> Just like Amazon Prime. Let's not pretend most people are actually subscribing to it...

People outside the US may actually do that, because they don’t get Prime and thus they don’t get Prime Video as a free rider.

Personally I subscribed to it for The Grand Tour alone. For $4 a month, I find that worthwhile.

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fnord123 2422 days ago
>People outside the US may actually do that, because they don’t get Prime and thus they don’t get Prime Video as a free rider.

Prime and Prime Video are available and bundled outside the US.

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josteink 2422 days ago
But not all countries. You can’t presume all Prime Video subscribers have Amazon Prime.
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dageshi 2422 days ago
I think the Grand Tour probably got quite a few people to subscribe to prime.
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Jamwinner 2421 days ago
I nearly unsubsubbed. GT is all the cruft and precious little of the TopGear soul it tried so cringlingly hard to steal. There is some good original content nontheless on prime.
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smush 2419 days ago
Ironic, here I am thinking that GT is TopGear with the boring stuffy old parts removed. No, I don't care about Star in a Reasonably priced car or the Cool Wall.

I do care about the new car reviews, The News, 'what would happen if we made a car...out of spaghetti noodles', on-location shoots etc. GT has its own take on each of those.

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josteink 2421 days ago
> There is some good original content nontheless on prime.

To my amazement I found a surprisingly big catalog of RiffTrax and MST3K there. Definitely an unexpected bonus.

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