Who could have foreseen that the conglomerate making your phone, your set-top box, your watch, your speakers, your credit card, your fitness plan, as well as distributing your news, music, and movies might not be the ideal producer of your TV shows! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/business/media/apple-gawker-tim-cook.html

Apple's TV production sounds like a love place to work, though. No nudity, no critiques of the CCP (or China in general), no retrospective that might cast any of Apple's past irritants in a positive light, and you have to endure show notes from the king of cool, Mr Cook!

Once upon a time we banned movie studies from owning theaters. Correctly assessing that producers owning distribution was bad for consumers, bad for censorship, bad for all the things. But like the Glass-Steagall repeal, we now think corporations are so much wiser and kinder!

If the monopoly counter wave achieves once thing, it should be that big tech is pushed back from owning, producing, and editing our news, our music, our movies, and our TV shows. Let Apple make phones, let creatives make content.