HBO’s former CEO signs multi-year deal with Apple TV+

Richard Plepler, HBO’s former chief executive of 27 years, has landed a long-term content deal with Apple TV+. Plepler and Apple had been hashing out a deal that would bring more content to Apple’s budding streaming service. Now finalized, the arrangement comes as a five-year deal in which his new company, Eden Productions, will produce […]

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Forget the $52,000 Mac Pro, the sweet spot config is $25,000

A fully-loaded Mac Pro sports a price exceeding $50,000, but the sweet spot configuration is less than half that at $25,000. For comparison, look at an earlier high-end pro machine. The Apple Macintosh IIfx cost $8970 for the base model in 1990, $17,652 in today’s dollars. Of course, you’d want to outfit that with the […]

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