Apple seems to have lost their focus, and that is reflecting all over their product line.
Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+
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yeah, but I'm pretty sure that mess is all Outlook.com underneath. I use gmail but also have an outlook account under the new service.
The branding is Outlook.com, but I think it's still the old Hotmail/Live infrastructure underneath.
I mean that would make sense and I don't really care what's under it, the fact of the matter is it does have a unified brand these days.
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See also: Apple TV (disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_TV_(disambiguation) Original programming for Apple TV+ seems to be very good. First three episodes for the "For All Mankind" (scifi) are good so are the three episodes for "See". The "The Morning Show" seems to be very good although I'm not in the target audience.
See is the only one that piques my interest. How would you rate it as a sci-fi on its own merit? (without bringing Apple vs. The World into it or giving away any spoilers)
It's quite decent. B+
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Is it really inconsistent branding, though? To me, every one of these Netflixes is the same: the Netflix on my phone, tablet, TV, games console, and the website are all the same product . For Apple TV, however, the exact same name is used to refer to multiple different products and experiences: the device, the app on the device, the app on different devices, and many of these experiences differ significantly.
Ultimately, it seems like there are two different Apple TV products, but not more than that. There's the device, and there's the app/service. The difference from Netflix is that Netflix doesn't sell hardware also called Netflix.
The author seems to be getting at that point: these two "Apple TV"s are more than two products.
Assuming for a moment that the hardware devices can be a single product, the apps just cannot be: each of them has wildly different behaviour on different apple devices, with different features, and different functionality depending on the presence of 3rd party apps.
As an end user I found this confusing at first, frustrating when I understood what was going on, and now I just don't use the Apple TV apps, even on my Apple TV.
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Ultimately, it seems like there are two different Apple TV products, but not more than that. There's the device, and there's the app/service. The difference from Netflix is that Netflix doesn't sell hardware also called Netflix.
The author seems to be getting at that point: these two "Apple TV"s are more than two products. Assuming for a moment that the hardware devices can be a single product, the apps just cannot be: each of them has wildly different behaviour on different apple devices, with different features, and different functionality depending on the presence of 3rd party apps. As an end user I found this confusing at first, frustrat…
I guess this is subjective, but I don't see the behaviors as "wildly" different.
In all cases, the Apple TV app is where you go to access the Apple TV+ service and as much other available content and video services as can possibly be presented to you on the given platform. The fact that this is different depending on your device and subscriptions is a little bit weird, but it doesn't change that much, at least for me.
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It all works juuuuust until it doesn't and you have to upgrade to the next tier. I assume the experience will be like the one i had with netflix, where once i had a 4k tv i realized i HAD to upgrade my account and internet bandwidth coz otherwise stuff would look blurry and buffer(for kids who can't tell why stuff doesn't look as good as on the neighbors device) Obviously not a problem for people who can just buy all…
Bad assumption. Apple TV+ has only one price, no tiers of service like Netflix.
yet