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Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by sgentle on Sunday November 03, 2019 @11:29PM (#21439055)
Okay, I think I've got this figured out. Can someone check my working?

https://imgur.com/a/GVdsG7r

Color key:

    Green: Apple set-top box
    Yellow: App for Apple set-top box
    Orange: App for other Apple devices
    Red: App for third-party devices
    Yellow/Orange/Red stripe: App generally across all platforms
    Violet: Integrated external subscription content
    Blue: Apple subscription content
    Violet/Blue stripe: Content generally
    Rainbow stripe: Apple TV
Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by nabla9 on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:44AM (#21440749)
See also:

Apple TV (disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_TV_(disambiguation)

Original programming for Apple TV+ seems to be very good.

First three episodes for the "For All Mankind" (scifi) are good so are the three episodes for "See". The "The Morning Show" seems to be very good although I'm not in the target audience.

Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by matwood on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:25AM (#21440952)
> First three episodes for the "For All Mankind" (scifi) are good so are the three episodes for "See". The "The Morning Show" seems to be very good although I'm not in the target audience.

Which is funny because many critics/reviewers have panned all the new shows. I've only watched TMS so far and found it intriguing.

Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by nabla9 on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:28AM (#21441909)
It's funny, but I get a feeling that the shows are seamless match for Apple products (not in the bad way). It seems like like they are targeting premium users with their programming.
Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by bovermyer on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:38AM (#21441046)
Critics/reviewers never have the same opinion I do. Not even close. I've learned to ignore them completely.
Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by Terretta on Monday November 04, 2019 @08:23AM (#21441349)
Reviews were so terrible, the shows themselves “subverted expectations”.

Watched 2 - 3 episodes of each this weekend to judge, and while there’s a lot of quality TV competing across pay channels lately, seems to me that Apple has nothing to be embarrassed about.

Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by Razengan on Monday November 04, 2019 @01:15PM (#21444535)
See is the only one that piques my interest. How would you rate it as a sci-fi on its own merit? (without bringing Apple vs. The World into it or giving away any spoilers)
Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by untangle on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @02:42AM (#21450442)
It's quite decent. B+
Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by yoz-y on Monday November 04, 2019 @04:15AM (#21440011)
What is the point of separating the macOS, iOS and tvOS apps into three? I think it unnecessarily complicates the thing. They are all mostly the same and only differ by the content they can play, which depends on third party support.

Case in point: once you have defined the three terms, you only use the striped one except at the very end to highlight one difference, which only depends on hardware.

Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by deelly on Monday November 04, 2019 @04:55AM (#21440193)
> They are all mostly the same and only differ by the content they can play..

But content is a main idea of Apple TV?

Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by yoz-y on Monday November 04, 2019 @07:38AM (#21441045)
It is, but if you define the Apple TV app as a sink that aggregates all content available on your platform, then it makes sense that it is different on each one. Since the way the app works is that it bounces you to the source.

To me there is the device, the app and the streaming service. The Channels is just a feature of the app. I agree that the naming is not ideal, but that is on par for course with Apple nowadays.

Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by qbaqbaqba on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:04AM (#21441679)
DRM levels?
Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by Razengan on Monday November 04, 2019 @01:16PM (#21444546)
This is actually the most plausible reason. Macs for example got the ability to play your purchased 4K content long after tvOS.
Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by thedaemon on Monday November 04, 2019 @11:03AM (#21442843)
Did you not understand the article at all. It's satire.
Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by throwaway122378 on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:40AM (#21439294)
Brilliantly done
Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by senthilmpro on Monday November 04, 2019 @12:49AM (#21439317)
nailed it.