Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

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.

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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?

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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.

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Re:Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+ by qbaqbaqba on Monday November 04, 2019 @09:04AM (#21441679)

DRM levels?

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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.

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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.

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