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Jon Stewart’s Apple TV Plus show ends, reportedly over coverage of AI and China (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6745228

TLDR: Apple wants to keep china happy, Stewart was going after china in some way, Apple said don’t, Stewart walked, the show is dead.

Not surprising at all, but sad and shitty and definitely reduces my loyalty to the platform. Hosting Stewart seemed like a real power play from Apple, where conflict like this was inevitable, but they were basically saying, yes we know, but we believe in things and, as a big company with deep pockets that can therefore take risks, to prove it we’re hosting this show.

Changing their minds like this is worse than ever hosting the show in the first place as it shows they probably don’t know what they’re doing or believe in at all, like any big company, and just going for what seems cool, and undermining the very idea of a company like Apple running a streaming platform. I wonder if the Morning Show/Wars people are paying close attention.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Meh, realistically I don't think Jon does it because he needs money.

He seems like the kind of person who does things because it's the right thing to do. So taking away his platform isn't going to make him go away or shut him up.

It might take a while for him to get another one but I'm confident this guy will be on his deathbed telling people in power they suck & should do better.

We need more people like him

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Paramount is foaming at the mouth.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nebula is foaming harder. Honestly they should offer him some sort of syndication, getting Stewart on their platform would solidify them as the YouTube replacement.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think if Jon jumped to nebula that'd be the final push I needed to subscribe to them

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd get a lifetime subscription if he went to Nebula.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If I'm not mistaking they stopped offering lifetime subscriptions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's a shame. They were a couple weeks ago.

Edit: it seems that you are correct for now.

https://blog.nebula.tv/lifetime-memberships/

They are going to hike the price.