{"id":48872,"date":"2019-03-24T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T20:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48872"},"modified":"2019-03-24T20:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T20:02:16","slug":"netflix-says-it-will-not-join-apple-tv-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/netflix-says-it-will-not-join-apple-tv-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix says it will not join Apple TV service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-48873\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Netflix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"808\" height=\"592\" \/>Netflix Inc, the world\u2019s dominant streaming service, will not make its TV shows and movies available through Apple Inc\u2019s upcoming video offering, Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe prefer to let our customers watch our content on our service,\u201d Hastings told reporters at the company\u2019s offices in Hollywood. \u201cWe have chosen not to integrate with their service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apple is expected to unveil a television and video service at an event on March 25, a move that will amp up competition for Netflix and others that deliver entertainment programming online.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters that the service may resell subscriptions from CBS Corp, Viacom Inc and Lions Gate Entertainment Corp\u2019s Starz among others, as well as Apple\u2019s own original content.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Walt Disney Co and AT&amp;T Inc\u2019s WarnerMedia also plan to offer subscription streaming services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asked about the looming competition, Hastings said the biggest challenge for Netflix is to \u201cnot get too distracted\u201d by rivals but still \u201clearn lessons\u201d from them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThese are amazing, large, well-funded companies with very significant efforts,\u201d Hastings said. \u201cThey are going to do some great shows. I\u2019m going to be envious. They\u2019re going to come up with some great ideas. We\u2019re going to want to borrow those.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But, he added, \u201cwe will make this a better industry if we have great competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hastings also said he expected Netflix, like other US technology companies, to be blocked in China \u201cfor a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/netflix-says-it-will-not-join-apple-tv-service\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix Inc, the world\u2019s dominant streaming service, will not make its TV shows and movies available through Apple Inc\u2019s upcoming video offering, Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings said on Monday. \u201cWe prefer to let our customers watch our content on our service,\u201d Hastings told reporters at the company\u2019s offices in Hollywood. \u201cWe have chosen not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48874,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48872\/revisions\/48874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}