{"id":27170,"date":"2019-11-04T14:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27170"},"modified":"2019-11-07T13:24:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:24:57","slug":"apple-tv-apple-tv-apple-tv-and-apple-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/04\/apple-tv-apple-tv-apple-tv-and-apple-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dustin Curtis<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Apple TV is a hardware device.<\/p>\n

Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way to tell which ones).<\/p>\n

Apple TV is an app on iOS\/iPadOS devices that operates similarly to Apple TV on Apple TV. Apple TV on iOS\/iPadOS syncs playback and watch history with Apple TV on Apple TV, but only if the iOS\/iPadOS device has the same apps installed as the Apple TV – and not all apps are available on all platforms. Apple TV is also an app on macOS, but it does not show content that can only be streamed from external apps on an Apple TV or iOS\/iPadOS device.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the post color-coded<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2019-11-07): Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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An article like this would also be written if Apple went to market with a hardware device called Apple TV, an app called Videos, a smart-TV app called Apple, a reselling strategy called Apple Channels (or having no name at all!), and a subscription streaming service called Apple Cinema. Too many names, Apple! It’s confusing! Why not something simpler?<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

So, yes: Apple’s strategy is a mess. I’m also not sure that the alternatives are any better.<\/p>\n

I saw someone the other day say that television is so much simpler than it used to be, and I had to laugh. Television has never been more complicated. Apple’s very Apple-like attempt to stick to a single simple phrase—“Apple TV”—can’t spackle over just what a messy situation the streaming entertainment world is right now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dustin Curtis (via Hacker News): Apple TV is a hardware device. Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way to tell which ones). Apple TV is an app […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-11-04T19:22:28Z","apple_news_api_id":"842c1f15-26cb-432c-b58b-b4c738585325","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-11-07T18:25:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AhCwfFSbLQyy1i7THOFhTJQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[615,1789,31,1667,30,1666,1590],"class_list":["post-27170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-tv","tag-apple-tv-plus","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-tv-app"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27228,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27170\/revisions\/27228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}