Apple takes on streaming market with Hollywood stars

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SAN FRANCISCO Apple looks to begin a fresh reinvention today as it rolls out Hollywood stars for its new streaming television service, part of a broad shift of direction for the California technology giant. Having seen a pullback in the once-sizzling smartphone market,...

The event comes with Apple under pressure to diversify its revenues amid sluggish growth in smartphones, which have delivered the bulk of Apple's profits for the past decade.

The Cupertino-based company recently stopped disclosing iPhone sales numbers with quarterly earnings releases and has taken to stressing the money-making potential of selling services, apps, music, movies and more to the millions of people using its devices. The new entrants, with more expected, could launch a formidable challenge to Netflix, which has some 140 million paid subscribers in 190 markets, and to other services such as Amazon and Hulu.

Subscriptions to online video services globally climbed 27 per cent last year to 613 million, eclipsing cable television subscriptions for the first time, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.

 

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