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Most comments so far are negative but not really saying why. What would be different compared to now in your country? Or is it just a dislike of the company Apple?
Officially, I'd have to pay 28€ per month for some pay tv subscription to watch it. The amount of races I can watch (time zones; other appointments) during the season is probably 15 out of the 22 in the calendar. So with 336€ for 12 months and 15 races, I'd have to pay 22.40€ for each race I'm watching. That is totally ridiculous, so I'm watching random free streams I can find somewhere on the internet. Or I'm simply not watching at all, if there is no free stream available.
I don't really see this getting worse with any other company or Apple. It could stay just as bad and I'm not paying anyone - or maybe get better.
I currently pay ~5 € per month for F1TV (65€ per year). It's unlikely that it stays that cheap with AppleTV.
Same for me, I love F1TV content and rather not have third parties involved. Especially a company whose products I avoid (mostly because my mindset is incompatible with their UX design).
I'd totally pay 65€ per year to watch the races! Unfortunately, the F1TV product is not available for me due to exclusive broadcasting rights by Sky. And they don't have a F1 subscription, but only multi-sport-bundle at 28€ per month.
Why is it unlikely to stay the same price? Apple could possibly sell it at less profit to incentivize people to switch to AppleTV or other Apple products. Since F1TV has no other services they have to get the full cost out of the subscription and ads.
Also, 3 euro per race is pretty expensive already.
Giving Tim Profit-is-everything Cook exclusive rights to stream F1 is plain wrong in every single level. I'm saying this as an old time Apple fan who's watched Tim's business decisions betray users so many times.
Well for one F1TV is much cheaper than sky so the apple service might not be cheaper for us.
Secondly apple might bundle F1 streaming to apple TV and use that to push people towards adopting their ecosystem. This may result in a worse experience for Android and windows users(not to mention linux which I assume will have no official support at all)
Price and trapping F1 in Apple ecosystem (Apple TV works okay on Android, but that doesn't mean the same would apply to F1).
Currently, streaming the races is an option that the TV broadcasters hold in my country. Which is completely free TV and I dont have to pay for it. If Apple gets a global streaming license, I cant stream the races via my TV broadcaster anymore.
Also, oligarchy sucks. There is no need for F1 streaming to be held by a big streaming provider of which there are only a handful who buy more and more content.
the fact that some people are referring to anyone who uses an apple product as "iSheep" should inform you of the quality of discourse to expect here
no thinking, just blind tribalism
28 euro is cheap as well! In the UK, you have have to have a full sky tv package plus the sport addon, you’re looking at about 50 gpb per month. And because it’s a full package it’s every month, so even in the off season. I use f1tv using some vpn trickery and that’s great but not everyone does that. Personally if this is a replacement for the sky monopoly I’m all for it.