{"id":37499,"date":"2019-03-26T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37499"},"modified":"2019-03-26T17:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:22:27","slug":"apple-just-made-one-of-its-boldest-bets-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37499","title":{"rendered":"Apple just made one of its boldest bets ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>Apple badly needs something to sell other than the iPhone. How badly? It just made its splashiest, most star-studded announcement ever and didn&#8217;t bring up the iPhone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Tim Cook &#038; Co. are getting into show business. Big-name celebrities, including Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, headlined the company&#8217;s much-anticipated entrance into the video-streaming market Monday. <span>Apple<\/span> <span>(<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=AAPL&#038;source=story_quote_link\" class=\"inlink\">AAPL<\/a><\/span>)<\/span> will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/25\/tech\/apple-tv-channels-details\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">produce its own films and TV shows<\/a> for a subscription service accessible on Apple devices and other streaming gadgets, including <span>Roku<\/span> <span>(<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=ROKU&#038;source=story_quote_link\" class=\"inlink\">ROKU<\/a><\/span>)<\/span>. The service will be available this fall, but Apple didn&#8217;t say how much it will cost.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">It&#8217;s among the boldest and most daring bets in the company&#8217;s history. The costs of making its Apple TV+ streaming service a success will be enormous. And there&#8217;s a ton of deeply entrenched competition out there.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)Apple badly needs something to sell other than the iPhone. How badly? It just made its splashiest, most star-studded announcement ever and didn&#8217;t bring up the iPhone.Tim Cook &amp; Co. are getting into show business. Big-name celebrities, including Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey, headlined the company&#8217;s much-anticipated entrance into the video-streaming market&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}