Cord-cutting's moment is now, and Apple is missing it: On this visit, however, his cable box was gone: It had been replaced by a Roku, and the cable service replaced by subscriptions to Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Amazon Prime. That works out to a savings of at least $30 a month—well worth it, my father-in-law says, even though he can’t watch CBS shows or live golf anymore. Instead, he’s been exploring the Criterion Collection on Hulu Plus.
“The quality is as good as cable and satellite and in some programming areas better,” he told me last week. He gushed: “Hulu Criterion is a treasure vault.”