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Apple TV+ strategy, MacBook Pro display upgrade

2024/11/19
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Welcome to ninety five back daily for tuesday, november eighth, twenty twenty four. I'm your host, chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by card points ers. Leading of today, apple T V plus has had its share of hits, but the service none's continues to struggle to gain widespread success. Now according to a new report from bloomberg, apple start licensing some of its content elsewhere, an effort to save money and spread its reach.

The report says that apple has hired an executive to license its original productions to other companies, a strategy designed to increase sales from its film business and improve visibility of its content. Apple is focused on licensing its movies to other companies like foreign TV newark and stores where viewers can rent or buy them. The company isn't yet planning to license its original T, V.

Shows to third parties. The report also does again point out that apple CEO tim cook and services boss I D Q have been pushed for the T V plus team to cut costs and find greater success. The movie division especially has come under increased scrutiny lately with this planned theatrical release of wolves cancelled at the last minute, apple reportedly changed its film strategy to minimize the big budget theatrical productions and lean more into streaming friendly, lower cost movies.

The idea is that by licensing its movie is to other networks, I will be able to save some of those losses and continue making the content at pace with out further cuts. In other news, today, when apple announced the inform macbook pro, IT touted increased brightness as one of the benefits of display. The macbook pro can now show sdr content at a thousand needs of peak brightness and increase from the previous generations limit of six hundred minutes.

However, IT turns out that apple also quietly gave the macbook pro a new hardware display technology with two key benefits. Macbook displays still use I, P, S, L, C, D screens, though a far higher quality than offered in most laptops. Apple describe them by the term mini L D, A reference to the much improved backlighting in which many more smaller lids allow for far greater local brightening and dimming of the display.

But previous insert ous macbook pro models use what's called a red K S F fox fur film to enable the mini backlighting to produce a wider color game IT than what would Normally be possible. That film is also very efficient, but as IT turns out, there's even a Better option available known as quantum dot display anos. Russian g reports that apple quietly introduced this new quantum dot film to the informa book pro.

This Marks the first time apple has adopted quantum dots in any of its products. This unlocks even Better color gaming and Better motion performance for the informant c pro. Compared to previous generation laptops, pixel response is pretty clearly significantly faster with motion tests, which you can see side by side.

Apple didn't make this change before because of concerns about efficiency, but now it's decided those trade offs are worthy and unveiled this new quantum dot technology with the latest m four macbook pro we are sponsored this week by hard points ers, the best way to earn more from your credit cards every day and exclusively for nine five mac readers, you can say fifty percent of card points ers annual and lifetime plans in celebration of black friday car pinners shows you in depth details about rewards and offers for each of your credit cards. And most users save over seven hundred and fifty dollars a year thanks to those tips and tricks. Again, you can save fifty percent of card points ers lifetime and usually upgrades with the link and the shown notes below.

My thanks, the card pointe ers for their support of nine five mac daily running out today. Apple analyzed poop is out with a new investor or with more details on what to expect from next year's iphone seventeen lineup. The investor not largely reiterates much of what he's reported in the past with a couple new details, but largely signaling that apple's plans have been changed.

In terms of design, he once again says that all four iphone seventeen models will feature an aluminum design instead of titanium that's more complex than the iphone sixteen. The expectation is that the iphone seventeen pro models will still use some titanium, but with a larger mix of aluminum. Pow also says the iphone seventeen pro max will introduce a much narrowed dynamic island, while the other models will retain the same design, the smaller dynamic island on the iphone seventeen pro max is made possible by a middle and technology for the proximity sensor, which can significantly reduce the size of the facility sensor.

The anus also says the a nineteen and a nineteen pro chips will use a new in three p fabrication process compared to the n three e process used for the eighteen ships in the iphone sixteen. Previously, IT wasn't clear if both versions of the a nineteen ship would use this new fabrication process or only the pro models. This means we can expect improved performance and deficiency across the entire lineup, thanks to an an increase in transition density on the eight nineteen chips and all four iphone seventeen models last week of supply in reports suggest that apple technical road blocks and its plans to use a sender battery design in the iphone seventeen air, while that report seem to suggest the iphone seventeen air battery itself would be six millimeters thick, this annual report from pool, however, suggest the iphone seventeen air itself, meaning the entire phone will be six millimeters thick.

This would make IT the thinness iphone ever made by apple, undercutting the iphone six, which is currently apple, that this iphone at six point nine millimeters. But again, it's important to treat all of this with a big grain of salt for the time being. We are still ten months away from the announcement of the iphone seventeen.

So apples, plants can and will change multiple times before then drops up another episode of nineteen five mac daily. As always, you can find all of the latest apple news on nineteen five mac dot com. Follow along with me on threads at chance h. Miller, and will be back tomorrow for a new episode, ninety five mac daily.