Steven Spielberg joined the tech company to launch its new streaming service
The tech giant held an event this afternoon at the Apple Park campus in California, but didn’t bother showing off any new iPhones or Mac computers.
Cook continued: ‘TV is more than just entertainment, it’s cultural,’ before introducing the company’s newly revamped TV offering. Aniston and Witherspoon will be debuting a new show about morning TV news on Apple+ called ‘The Morning Show’.Like Netflix, Apple’s TV service will let you download TV episodes and movies for watching offline.
Meanwhile, Apple’s news subscription service is called Apple News+ and includes magazines as well as Apple’s standard curated News app. Like Amazon’s Prime Reading service, Apple News+ lets you browse and select multiple issues of various magazines as if you were standing at a newsstand.Over 300 magazines are on offer from a variety of genres: fashion, health, lifestyle and politics. Apple is charging $9.
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