Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint

Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by enragedcacti on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:31PM (#26169766)

Funnily enough the new Chromecast with Google TV is a better experience for you than Apple TV. All of the services except Apple TV that you mentioned are searchable and playable from the home screen and Google doesn't have to take 30% of their revenue to make it happen.

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by gpanders on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:15PM (#26170266)

I am not sure what the GP is referring to, but the Apple TV does exactly this.

On my Apple TV I can search for shows on HBO, Amazon, ESPN, etc. All of my recently watched shows, regardless of streaming service/channel, show up on the main "TV" page. I can use Siri to search across all services, e.g. if I ask Siri to play The Office it will find it on Peacock and play it directly from there.

The large exception here is Netflix, apparently they don't hook in to the Apple TV API like the rest of these apps do (I imagine it's the same on the Google TV).

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by adambyrtek on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:07PM (#26171794)

Just FYI, Netflix works without any issues on the new Chromecast with Google TV.

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