Apple today announced that its Apple Music Connect social platform for artists is in the process of shutting down, suffering the same fate as Ping, the company's previous social network for music remo... ( read original story ...)
Apple is shutting down Apple Music’s rarely-used Connect feature
Apple is giving up on its second attempt to create something of a social network within its music app. The company has informed artists that effective today, they can no longer post content to the Con... ( read original story ...)
Apple Can’t Win Over Media With Its Old Approach
A similar set of objections were raised by the television network owners that Apple approached in multiple efforts to create a collection of online TV channels. At least one of those attempts was simi... ( read original story ...)
Apple says it will expand staff in Culver City as entertainment ambitions grow
Programs such as a drama about a morning show starring Steve Carell will also appear on Apple. The company is investing in TV shows and films at a time when investors are concerned that its main busin... ( read original story ...)
Apple’s original TV shows and series: J.J. Abrams to produce ‘My Glory Was I Had Such Friends’ with Jennifer Garner
Apple is said to be spending as much as $1 billion over the course of 2018 on original TV programming. That’s a lot of TV! It’s not the $8 billion Netflix is going to spend, but it’s still a huge comm... ( read original story ...)
In search of a ‘Breaking Bad’-like hit, Apple may pick up a ‘violent’ TV drama from Israel
Though it's no secret that Apple has grand plans to make a splash in the TV space, there have been rumors, purportedly sourced from people within Apple and the entertainment industry at large, that Ap... ( read original story ...)
Apple just shed new light on its streaming TV plans by trying to buy the rights to ‘Friends’
might disappear from Netflix less than a month from now was a major entertainment industry story a few days ago, and it was certainly a hotly discussed topic on social media. Indeed, someone noticed a... ( read original story ...)