By now it is no secret that Apple is looking to pack its catalogue with original TV shows. The company has been busying courting various directors and actors and buying up existing content. Apple has never really been one to justify their actions to the public, but Apple’s CEO Tim Cook recently offered up a reason why.
With Apple picking up as many new shows and movies as they are, the question is how will Apple distribute them? Will it be part of an Apple Music subscription? Will it be part of Apple TV? According to a report from The Information (paywall; via MacRumors), it seems that Apple could be planning a massive subscription bundle.
So we know that Apple has been rather busy going about acquiring new content for its video streaming platform. That much is already been confirmed, but many are questioning how Apple plans to go about distributing it. Will Apple do it on their own, or will they partner up with someone else to do it?
For those who own an Apple TV, you guys are probably well aware of what a pain it is to enter a password to log into certain apps. This is because while the Apple TV remote might be useful for navigating the device, it’s less than ideal to type things out, but that is expected to change with the upcoming tvOS 12 update.
When Apple acquired the rights to Carpool Karaoke, they made it exclusive to Apple Music which meant that users needed a subscription to Apple Music in order to stream it. However that will change soon because in a report from Billboard, Apple will be making Carpool Karaoke free to stream via its TV app this Friday, the 11th of May.
According to the various reports we’ve been hearing over the past several months to a year, it seems like Apple is cooking up a bunch of shows ranging from documentaries, TV series, comedy, drama, and so on. However the big question many are asking is on which platform does Apple plan on debuting them on?
It is no secret that Apple is working on bringing big names onto its platform when it comes to generating original content, whether it be a TV series or a movie. However many are probably wondering when we will be able to expect to see the company’s efforts come to fruition. Turns out that we might have a year of waiting left to do.
So we know that Apple has been trying to land some big names for their original video content, and in a report from Variety, it looks like Apple has managed to nab another big name in the form of director M. Night Shyamalan who will be executive producing a psychological thriller series for the company.
Some of you probably may not even remember the first generation Apple TV but it goes without saying that it’s an obsolete product and Apple certainly seems to think so. The company has announced that it’s going to drop iTunes support for the original Apple TV from May 25. It’s also going to drop support for PCs running older iterations of Windows.
The Apple TV for the most part is great if you want to watch videos, and less so when it comes to gaming, or at least that was the case until Apple made some changes in recent years where they are trying to encourage gaming on the device. This is thanks to the introduction of a new remote for the Apple TV that helps bring about a better gaming experience.
One of the features of the HomePod is its ability to daisy chain with another HomePod, resulting in a stereo set of speakers. However this functionality has yet to be included as it is basically waiting on AirPlay 2 to be ready in order for this to work. It was expected that AirPlay 2 would arrive in iOS 11.3, but it doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.
Despite 4K having been around for the past couple of years, it was only in 2017 that Apple finally upgraded its Apple TV set-top box to support the resolution. However it seems that way before then, Apple was apparently considering it and at one point in time might have experimented with creating an Apple TV powered by the A9X chipset.