cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6745228
TLDR: Apple wants to keep china happy, Stewart was going after china in some way, Apple said don’t, Stewart walked, the show is dead.
Not surprising at all, but sad and shitty and definitely reduces my loyalty to the platform. Hosting Stewart seemed like a real power play from Apple, where conflict like this was inevitable, but they were basically saying, yes we know, but we believe in things and, as a big company with deep pockets that can therefore take risks, to prove it we’re hosting this show.
Changing their minds like this is worse than ever hosting the show in the first place as it shows they probably don’t know what they’re doing or believe in at all, like any big company, and just going for what seems cool, and undermining the very idea of a company like Apple running a streaming platform. I wonder if the Morning Show/Wars people are paying close attention.
I didn’t think my opinion of Apple could go any lower but I guess I was wrong.
Fucking cowards.
Well, I guess we’ve now unofficially confirmed that, despite the fact that Siri is still terrible, Apple is also investing a shitload of money in large language models behind the scenes.
Imo, it’s been pretty obvious that they have big plans for AI and Siri since 1. They’ve let it languish (they only do that with products they have a roadmap to fixing/replacing) 2. The new silicon has built in ML cores.
Apple is 100% working on AI possibly a new Siri, and it’s going to run locally without sending your info to the cloud.
Because we all know how easy it is to silence Jon Stewart.
Something tells me he could get more funding for a show with a gofundme than Apple+ is authorized to spend.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, ahead of its decision to end The Problem, Apple approached Stewart directly and expressed its need for the host and his team to be “aligned” with the company’s views on topics discussed. Rather than falling in line when Apple threatened to cancel the show, Stewart reportedly decided to walk.
Good for Jon Stewart. He held the line even when the money people demanded that he compromise. Maybe a VP pic. I could see it.
He is successful enough, old enough and made enough money, that he can just retire. Threatening him is an empty threat. He is 60 and probably given his long career earned more than he can spend in rest of his life, unless he goes super yacht and private jet crazy.
The whole show was a come back from retirement essentially. A voluntary indulgence on his part. Surely lucrative indulgence, but indulgence still. Apple needed him, he didn’t need Apple.
Most of the crew probably will leave for other project with a letter of recommendation from John in their pocket.
There is something particularly amusing and very ironic that a mega-corp like Apple, the most valuable company in the world, is standing up to defend a communist dictatorship and won’t accept any dissent.
Jack Ma approves of their decision.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But ahead of production kicking off on the show’s third season, Stewart and Apple have reportedly parted ways over “creative differences,” and The Problem is coming to an end.
Though new episodes of the show were scheduled to begin shooting in just a few weeks, staffers learned today that production had been halted.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, ahead of its decision to end The Problem, Apple approached Stewart directly and expressed its need for the host and his team to be “aligned” with the company’s views on topics discussed.
Rather than falling in line when Apple threatened to cancel the show, Stewart reportedly decided to walk.
The Times’ report doesn’t detail what about the show’s planned coverage of artificial intelligence and China prompted Apple’s executive leadership to butt heads with Stewart.
But considering how pointed criticality is a big part of what ultimately made The Problem With Jon Stewart a hit for Apple TV Plus and how maintaining a cordial relationship with China is crucial to Apple’s future plans for growth, it doesn’t come as a shock to see the show hit the chopping block this way.
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Now he and Hassam can start a new show.
Vaush, Hasan, and Stewart. They can bring back a better version of Crossfire.
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What has he said about purple people eaters? (Edit: wow I hit a nerve, I was just slightly baked and being silly. Not a tankie)
That there was some confusion whether it is a purple monster that eats people or a monster that only eats purple people.
Thanks.
It would be on brand for Stewart, but these last two weeks have thought me one thing: wait for confirmation and watch the development before reacting
Freedom of the press comes to an end when Apple is in the house 😧
Even taken at its face value, this allegation is literally an example of freedom of the press in action. Freedom means the ability for a publisher to choose what they publish. That includes telling staff no.
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To appease whom?
Apple has always sucked Winnie’s balls.
Oof. I got banned on reddit once for saying that stewart is no longer as good as i remember (but it was in a thread about some trans-issue so of course the mods went full hitler).
To be honest i don’t understand what he was expecting to happen in such a highly sanitized garden as apple’s. It’s so clearly not made for him
Yeah. Apple are the Machine
Apple users: buys iPhone for privacy
Apple: all your data belongs to me now
I would subscribe to him if he moved to patreon.
He might now.
Same here unironically
Many of us would do it too
Unfortunately patreon is getting worse
It’s just embracing the enshitification of everything.
He’d be a great leading subscription for that new Grayjay app Louis Rossmann has launched https://grayjay.app
stop making off topic promotions of that flawed product
You’re implying I have made a series of promotions spamming the fediverse – I have not. Twice max, I think. I am merely a rando who found out about by accident around the same time as this story, and it looked kinda cool. Honestly haven’t launched it since taking one or two peeks since.
Is there some reason for the antipathy I am not aware of? I admit to liking Louis’ channel and his fight for right-to-repair…
