Funny, I don't see an "Apple TV" app on my iPhone, I just see "TV".
Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+
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#112The mostly same problems plague Amazon Fire TV and Amazon Prime, Prime Channels, Prime Video for purchase, Prime video included in prime account, Prime App on different platforms, SSO with TV Network Apps. Looks like Apple is trying to catch up with mess.
With Google, I don't even know where to start. Messaging is not the only product line they messed up. Play Movies offering the same thing as Youtube Movies and Google Play Music - Youtube Music (you can buy, you can subscribe). Adding podcasts to Google Play Music, then removing it for a standalone app. However if you download the podcasts from the standalone app, they show up as Albums in Google Play music (on Android)
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Apps and Games, genius.
Oh, because people are regularly installing the 7.8GB Xcode update? Aside from the fact that I doubt anyone downloads that many apps, from my understanding Apple TV makes you use on-demand resources for anything above 4GB. That means that old resources automatically get flushed out, so the actual benefit of those extra 32GB is more of caching-feeling behavior.
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#114"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." (Phil Karlton) Amusing that along with this, there are two articles about caches on the front page of HN right now.
There's also the unspoken third one which is off by one errors.
Obiwan errors are greatly reduced in more modern language that have newer mechanisms for looping over data.
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#115Netflix refers to a company, an app, a third-party app on some Smart TVs, and a subscription service, but people don’t generally get confused. Consistent branding isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
That said, Apple’s support for third-party Smart TV apps is actually quite unusual IMHO; this really reduces their usual control over quality and experience.
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#116Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave right now. Tim Cook needs to be replaced.
Ah of course. Nothing like this happened when Jobs was around ;)
(Apart from the iPod, which probably is still more confusing than the iPad names. At one point it was so messed up that in November 2004 they had to rename the “iPod Photo“ to the “iPod photo”.)
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Additional app storage and the ability to store/download media in apps that support it.
How many apps will I have to install to run out of space on my 32GB Apple TV? Curious how many people this has actually happened to...
Now, with Apple Arcade, it is very easy to run out of space. It made no sense at the beginning, though.
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#118Apple TV+ has its flaws. So did Netflix on day one.
I know you’re being downvoted because your comment is based on the content not the name, but on the name thing, Netflix actually tried to spin their DVD business to be called ‘Qwikster’, but I think people got angry for some reason(?) so they kept the Netflix name for both. So that was maybe a bit confusing for a while.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Additional app storage and the ability to store/download media in apps that support it.
How many apps will I have to install to run out of space on my 32GB Apple TV? Curious how many people this has actually happened to...
Maybe it's there in case you run out of swap for Electron apps.
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#120Here's my take on it: I bought an Apple TV and It Just Works. Movies, subtitle, adding a few key apps like Netflix and Youtube. It's the same name because it's the same whole experience.
Exactly. Now I feel a bit bad because I'm not confused at all - it just all works.