I think it would be worth it just to see DeSantis try to screw with both Disney lawyers and apples lawyers.
I don’t buy that Disney is in trouble at all.
Streaming prices are going up, ads are now a thing unless you pay more, password sharing is on the way out, and soon showing movies in theaters first will taker over, and finally, they’ll begin bundling services you don’t want with the ones you do, and have a minimum subscription term so you can’t just cancel and switch to a different service on a whim. That’s, pretty much their old business model, just cutting out the cable companies.
In the meantime, they’re playing hardball with actors and writers, in hopes of locking them in a long term contract with less money “because streaming isn’t making money”, before much of the above takes hold.
I agree with John Gruber on why this doesn’t seem likely for Apple https://daringfireball.net/2023/08/disney_and_apple_sitting_in_a_tree
Absolutely wild that more than two decades ago, Disney saved Steve Jobs’ litttle tech company called Pixar, which what lead him back to running Apple.
He technically didn’t. It was originally owned by George Lucas! But it was mostly just the cgi arm of his special effects. Jobs bought it off Lucas and turned it into the Pixar movie studio we think of today. (Jobs is credited as executive producer on the original Toy Story)