Apple plans to launch TV online service in September this year. This publication reports The Wall Street Journal, citing informed sources. According to the newspaper, the Californian giant will offer users some 25 channels from manufacturers such as ABC, CBS and Fox.
According to the source, Apple is already in talks with the Walt Disney, CBS and 21st Century Fox. Similar discussions with NBCUniversal unavailable because of disagreements Apple c parent company NBCUniversal - Comcast Corp. In the past year, Apple and Comcast have been negotiating to work together on a platform streaming TV.
The newspaper quoted a source, according to which the iPhone maker can be quite difficult to launch online TV service channels without NBCUniversal.
The new service will be available on smartphones iPhone, tablets iPad, as well as the set-top box Apple TV. According to some experts, the cost of the subscription is about $ 30-40 per month.
Apple was in talks about the launch of its own TV service providers and cable television networks for more than two years. In one of these discussions, allegedly offered the Californian giant companies to implement a special premium service that will allow users to skip ads . Media companies will compensate for the loss of the very Apple. For each such pass iPhone maker will pay "TV people" a certain amount.
According to sources, Apple will announce a new project in June as part of the WWDC 2015 and will launch it in September.