Apple could start offering original streaming video content on its Apple Music platform by the end of the year, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
The tech giant reportedly hopes its scripted shows and movies will become as popular as HBO's "Westworld" or Netflix's "Stranger Things," and has been talking to producers in connection with the project.
Apple does not appear to be gunning directly for Netflix or Amazon with its video experiment, according to the Journal, because its offering would still be relatively small. But it could up the ante against Spotify, as well as tee up Apple for a big role in media and Hollywood.
Rumours of Apple's interest in television are not new. The company was said to have been planning to launch a streaming TV service as far back as 2012.
But negotiations with content providers for TV rights have made it hard for Apple to break into the market and offer a cable-like experience.