{"id":19771,"date":"2017-12-07T15:17:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=19771"},"modified":"2017-12-07T15:17:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:17:40","slug":"amazon-prime-video-finally-available-for-apple-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/07\/amazon-prime-video-finally-available-for-apple-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Prime Video Finally Available for Apple TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chance Miller<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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As announced in the Amazon Prime Video iOS app<\/a> release notes, the Apple TV Amazon Prime Video app is now rolling out. The release notes say users have to download a separate tvOS app, which apparently will work on the third-generation Apple TV as well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Apple TV 3 doesn’t run tvOS or have downloadable apps, however the Amazon icon automatically showed up<\/a> on my Apple TV 3. It seems that Amazon wrote a separate app using the legacy Apple TV SDK<\/a>—much appreciated—and Apple auto-installed it for everyone. This is despite the Apple TV itself not getting any software updates in years.<\/p>\n\n

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I’ve heard there is indeed a good story behind this delay.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

TL;DR it’s no wonder Amazon took so long in porting their app to tvOS; it’s a giant, [presumably] in-house web-based multi-headed hydra designed for a hundred different devices and consoles that probably needed a new UI glue layer for tvOS (but probably doesn’t use webviews)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Andrew Abernathy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Like Netflix before it, Amazon Prime Video has a “Settings” section in the app that doesn’t actually have any settings. Have to go to web site to turn off auto-playing the next episode. I don’t understand this. So hostile.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One huge<\/em> advantage of Amazon Prime Video over Netflix on Apple TV is that you can actually rest on a video for a moment without a trailer starting up and blaring at you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

See also: Ryan Christoffel<\/a>, Dave Mark<\/a>, Juli Clover<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Previously: Amazon Prime Video Coming to Apple TV<\/a>, Movies Anywhere<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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