It is an open secret that Apple is working on a streaming video service, a service that could be officially presented on March 25, according to different sources. But it is not the only great you also plan to dive into a VOD service, since Disney also announced a little over a year ago to follow the same path.
The problem facing Disney CEO Bob Iger is that he will most likely be forced to leave your position on Apple's board due to conflict of interest, According to Bloomberg, although it would also be possible that both reached an agreement to share content, something that would be very good for Apple but not so much for Disney.
It would not do Disney well because the Cupertino-based company has various audiovisual projects in the form of series and movies but all that content will be exclusive to the Apple platform. In addition, Disney wants to offer its entire extensive catalog only on its platform (Star Wars, Marvel ...).
Bob Iger was a very close friend of Steve Jobs. Nine years ago, it was the first Hollywood company to attend an Apple presentation to announce that it would sell both movies and television series through iTunes.
According to John Coffee, director of the Center for Corporate Governance at Columbia Law School, Disney and Apple may have to "Recognize that they will become active competitors in the near future."
If Bob finally leaves the board of directors, it wouldn't be the first time a top tech executive has been forced to do so due to a conflict of interest. Google's Eric Schmidt had served on Apple's board of directors from 2006 to 2009, when he was forced to resign because of the "increasingly fierce rivalry between the two companies and Schmidt's potential conflicts of interest." According to the press release that Apple published announced Eric's brand.
