Pinstripe Alley · Mar 10, 2022
Evaluating MLB’s new deal with Apple TV+
DEVON RAVINE via Imagn Content Services, LLCIf you follow the tech space closely, you know that there’s long been some questions about the direction of Apple. The world’s most valuable company sits on about $200 billion in cash on hand — enough to buy every MLB, NBA, and NHL team and still have enough kicking around to make a good faith effort at buying Budweiser. Their competitors have been extremely active in ambient computing (a better, more accurate term for the “Metaverse”), and Amazon has aggressively entered the live sports market, acquiring the rights to stream select Yankees games and Thursday Night Football.