No. Apple TV is 2 different products with this name. Apple TV+ is a subscription based TV streaming service. Like Netflix and Disney+.
The other one, Apple TV, the one Sonos is copying, is a piece of hardware that plugs to your TV and downloads apps to connect to the other streaming services. This hardware piece is comparable to an Amazon Firestick, a Google Chromecast, Nvidia Sheild, Roku, and a slew of cheap Android TV boxes.
Load the whole movie into RAM and go to town.
Hardware is more capable… To do what?
I know some people play games and stuff, but as a streaming device, why? The newest Chromecast handles x264 and can support an Ethernet port just fine for like half the price.
Also supports miracast for the odd screen casting need
Roku comes preinstalled on a lot of the Chinese brands. I assumed the rest of the world bought those as well.
Why is this ‘Apple TV’ like, and not Roku-like. Since it’s by-far the most popular.
Not another streaming service. Another streaming OS.
Apple TV, the roku/firestick/android TV competitor.
Not Apple TV, the Netflix/Hulu competitor.
Personally, I’m watching Volla.
Volla supports dual boot. Android and Ubuntu. Play with Ubuntu, work with Android.
That’s genius
I do not know.
ITT: People who don’t know as much as me.
All they killed was the branding. The Chromecast with Google TV was such a far cry from an OG Chromecast that it was stupid for them to have the same name.
OG Chromecast could only cast and did not have a remote. The CCwGT did still support casting, but also had a remote and a real UI.
The TV streamer is just the CCwGT in a fancy shell with probably a more powerful processor. I’ll bet money that it still supports casting, and can only do pretty much exactly what the CCwGT could do.
You can install LineageOS on one of the models of Chromecast for Android TV.
It did email really well. And it had the best VPN. Didn’t like the calendar or drive Didn’t touch the password manager.
As a userbase grows, companies have 2 options to make it more competitive.
More services Lower prices
And no company chooses the later.
And that’s how you get bloat
Drop a link to a few places people ask tech questions and I will do my part to contribute
I stopped using Brave when and because of crypto bs.
I stopped using proton a few months ago because the price was just too high and my need too small. I needed a reasonably priced family plan for email on my domain, not another cloud drive.
I think this decision will hurt them as others come to this conclusion
Which one? Cough cough
Sorta, but not quite.
This isn’t built to trap you into an ecosystem. It’s only built to give options. Each app is enforcing the activitypub protocol.
Exact same boat…