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Carrie Marshall

The golden age of Apple TV Plus could be over already – and that's a real shame

Colin Farrell's John Sugar sits in an open-top car in Apple TV Plus' Sugar series, next to Adam Scott in Severance season 2 holding blue balloons down an ominous hallway, plus a pilot scene from Masters of the Air.

Apple TV Plus has a problem: it's spending an absolute ton of money on shows that nobody's watching. And by "a ton of money", I mean exactly that: a new Bloomberg report says that Apple has spent more than $20 billion to get just 0.2% of the US streaming audience. 

Despite Apple's huge spending on movies and shows, more people watch Netflix in a single day than stream Apple TV Plus in an entire month. And that's one of the big reasons why Apple is, according to Bloomberg's sources, preparing to a shift in strategy to make its streaming platform more sustainable – and potentially, less exciting.

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