Can they use it to help tracking you when you use Safari with Apple Private Relay while having the App active (outside Apple Private Relay) ?
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Amazon Launches Prime Video App for Mac
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Same result for me.
I got to it by looking up the Kindle Mac app and then following the link in the listing to other apps made by Amazon, where the Prime Video was listed.
Amazon far past Apple in its eco susyem. They have their own music, security, home automation, accessory hardware. A suite of Prime benefits all at better costs to the consumer. The Mac app takes them deeper into Apples base. Poaching Apples base a huge win.
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Wow. Hopefully they actually improve the iOS app now as well and let you stream at 4k HDR with Dolby Atmos, I have to use safari for prime and only then it’s 1080p SDR
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I'm reading the privacy sheet, have you seen all the data this app is gathering? It's obscene!
I think I'm staying with the browser experience, where at least Safari and my content blocker are blocking all the trackers (or at least most of them).
I think I'm staying with the browser experience, where at least Safari and my content blocker are blocking all the trackers (or at least most of them).
I feel this is a good occasion to recall how bad the TV app is. It regularly crashes on my desktop. There is no language or subtitles preference settings -- as if people couldn't know more than one language. It's hassle to have to change the language each and every time. The home page is barely customizable, no algorithm to show what you might like.
I have a slightly better AppleTV+ experience on the browser...
I have a slightly better AppleTV+ experience on the browser...
I have a data cap on my home internet.
I've used a lot of Amazon software over the years and their UIs have always been terrible, but hopefully this one is less buggy and confusing than the rest.
Maybe that's true in terms of breadth, but Amazon puts out far worse hardware and software than Apple. I would put Amazon behind Microsoft and even Google in terms of quality as well.
Does this support HDR?
It's pretty infuriating that I don't have a TV in the house (I'm a desk guy), but I have an amazing Liquid Retina XDR display I can only watch Apple TV+ in HDR with...
Netflix can do HDR on Safari, but Disney+ and Prime Video don't (the latter doesn't even do 4K SDR).
Once again...pretty useless to have a display with amazing HDR capabilities that you can only use with a super small amount of content...
The irony is that I even have a new Apple TV Box that I cannot use with the mac...
I have it connected to my Asus Proart (a good display for design, sure), but being it an LCD there's a lot of blooming and the blacks are quite bright grey...
Not everyone is a bigass OLED tv person, especially in the age of shared flats and increasingly smaller appartments.
It's pretty infuriating that I don't have a TV in the house (I'm a desk guy), but I have an amazing Liquid Retina XDR display I can only watch Apple TV+ in HDR with...
Netflix can do HDR on Safari, but Disney+ and Prime Video don't (the latter doesn't even do 4K SDR).
Once again...pretty useless to have a display with amazing HDR capabilities that you can only use with a super small amount of content...
The irony is that I even have a new Apple TV Box that I cannot use with the mac...
I have it connected to my Asus Proart (a good display for design, sure), but being it an LCD there's a lot of blooming and the blacks are quite bright grey...
Not everyone is a bigass OLED tv person, especially in the age of shared flats and increasingly smaller appartments.
Amazon Prime the video streaming giant can't make a decent Prime Video app or stream 4K HDR to it.
And the media thinks Facebook can pull off a meta verse. hahahahahahahahaha. Facebook can't even get 2D social media done without making people all around the world die.
Guys and gals, Facebook's meta verse is going to be buggier than Cyberpunk 2077 and the GTA remastered series and all you will get is random pervert strangers or spies come up to you for cyber or to scam you.
Here is what to expect.
And the media thinks Facebook can pull off a meta verse. hahahahahahahahaha. Facebook can't even get 2D social media done without making people all around the world die.
Guys and gals, Facebook's meta verse is going to be buggier than Cyberpunk 2077 and the GTA remastered series and all you will get is random pervert strangers or spies come up to you for cyber or to scam you.
Here is what to expect.
According to Apple...
"This app is available only on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV."
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The iPad version of HBO Max is available for M1 Macs, but the others unfortunately aren't.
That was my first thought on reading this announcement. Amazon's revenue is in large part made up of collecting and selling personal information. I wonder if I can clip its wings a bit using Little Snitch without losing functionality. Otherwise, I'll also stick with the web browser.
Disney+ plays in HDR fine for me (iPadOS). As well as Tv and Netflix. It ducks the Amazon Prime app doesn’t even support 1080p. What a joke ?
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Well, it least they made the app “universal” instead of just making iPad app available on M1 series Macs and call it a day.
I wish WarnerMedia would do this also on HBO Max app.