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Apple rebrnads it's streaming services to lose the "+". Will others
start copy-catting? No more "Paramount+", "Disney+", "TVNZ+", etc.

In New Zealand it was made even more annoying / confusing since TVNZ
calls their streaming service "TVNZ+" and their one-hour delayed
broadcast channel "TVNZ+1".


Apple TV+ loses the Plus in Apple's quietest rebranding exercise ever
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In what could be Apple's quietest and most subtle rebranding exercise
in its history, Apple TV+ is slowly losing the Plus and confusingly
becoming just "Apple TV."

The Apple TV+ streaming service is very similarly named to the Apple
TV set-top box, but now the names are identical. Thanks to a small
rebranding effort by Apple, the two are now known as Apple TV.

In a paragraph at the end of a press release about "F1 The Movie"
arriving on the streaming service, Apple announced the name change.

"Apple TV+ is now simply Apple TV, with a vibrant new identity,"
Apple writes, before confirming it will still be available to
purchase via various platforms. That includes the Apple TV app.

While this is the first press release from Apple about its streaming
service that clearly announces the name change, it's oddly not the
first to bring it up.

The press release for "The Last Frontier," dated October 10, is
headlined using the Plus version of the brand and refers to it as
Apple TV+ initially. However, at the end, it refers to the streaming
service by its non-Plus name.

To add to the confusion, Apple doesn't seem to be changing the name
of the other components using the same name. The Apple TV app and
the Apple TV set-top box are still referred to by those names in the
press release.

For the moment, the Apple TV+ section of the Apple website still
refers to it as Apple TV+. It remains to be seen how long we will
have to wait to see that changed to the new shorter name.

At least the iTunes store is still around. For now.



<https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/10/13/apple-tv-loses-the-plus-in-apples-quietest-rebranding-exercise-ever>





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Apple rebrnads it's streaming services to lose the "+". Will others start copy-catting? No more "Paramount+", "Disney+", "TVNZ+", etc.

In New Zealand it was made even more annoying / confusing since TVNZ calls their streaming service "TVNZ+" and their one-hour delayed broadcast channel "TVNZ+1".

In Canada we had a TV Channel called Series+ for many years. A few
years ago, they changed it for Series Plus. lol
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