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Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 by moolcool on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:41PM (#47222177)
Profiles don't work well on Apple TVs at all though. You choose a profile on the device, and then you still have to choose a profile whenever you launch any given streaming app as well. I don't know what changing profiles on an Apple TV actually does.
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Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 by hvjackson on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:44PM (#47222213)
Apps can hook into the Apple TV user profiles if they want, but many don't.
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Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 by moolcool on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:30PM (#47222912)
As a developer myself, I respect and understand that it's not their fault that profiles are useless

As a consumer, I don't care whose fault it is that profiles are useless.

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Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 by lurking_swe on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:44PM (#47223067)
the developer needs to write code to detect the current profile. Most app’s don’t do this, and they explicitly ask a 2nd time. Not apple’s fault.

There are some apps that get this right. Infuse recently added support for this.

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Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 by moolcool on Monday March 02, 2026 @03:09PM (#47223392)
It's not the end user's problem whose fault it is.
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Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 by lurking_swe on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:42PM (#47225237)
I agree with you.

and the end user can blame Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, YouTube, etc for not delivering the best experience for their customers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 by nmcfarl on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @09:06AM (#47232527)
Or they can blame Apple for delivering a developer experience to those companies that makes those companies not want to play ball.

Not that they likely will, as Apple owns the framing.

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Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 by astafrig on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @05:59AM (#47230722)
as an end user it is my problem when trying to complain in the right place
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Re:Apple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4 by iwontberude on Monday March 02, 2026 @06:50PM (#47225979)
I don’t know I think Apple should be able to keep COW filesystems for every user to apply atop a read only file system. Unique apps, unique settings (maybe unify tv settings into admin panel) and no cross-contamination or need for app owners to switch profiles. macOS software doesn’t need explicit understanding of profile switching, neither should iPadOS software.
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