In before the obligatory "great, more channels to hide" and "what about those of us not in the US" posts.
The more channels appear, the more clear it gets that we will see an update soon. The current structure of the menu is not sustainable anymore and Apple should also be well aware that the current Apple TV GUI is not very well suited for people with large libraries.
A whole channel devoted to the cancelled show "Better off Ted"! Cool!
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There's a ton of chatter about this in the developer circles close to Apple. Like way more than the typical rumor creates. I suppose it could be motivated by "well, it's got to happen this time", but it seems more like a legitimate indicator it will happen.
Hopefully this forced vomiting of channels is temporary and Apple will announce an AppleTV store where channels can be downloaded if wanted versus hidden if not wanted.
It will take a re-architecting of the underlying software.
There's been lots of chatter every time.
This same chatter was present about a year ago.
So TED has its own channel. When they had Monica Lawinski giving a talk I stopped paying attention to them. TED Talks used to be fascinating discussions from great people. Now they are just click baiting media w****s.
Do you see the irony of this post?
The whole point of getting away from cable is to get away from package subscriptions. Should be piece meal,channel here,channel there.....
This is the stupidity of these rumor sites. They just guess and guess and guess and eventually if you throw out enough guesses one is bound to be right. Then people buy their random guesses as fact and praise them as being experts. So silly.
How many times have we heard that since the Apple TV 2 was released in 2010?
I'll believe it when I see it.
Siri to the rescue!
It will take a re-architecting of the underlying software. The way I understand it, is that unlike a normal OS X or iOS device, where you have an operating system and a series of applications that run on that OS, the Apple TV interface is one giant application (running on iOS), with new channels just being additional features added to that one application.
Presumably that's what Apple has been doing these past couple of years, no? The current GUI was never great but it's absolutely clunky now and can't bear the weight of additional channels. Asking the consumer to delete unwanted bloat is one of those things that annoys people about MS Products, right?
And yet, clearly, you enjoying coming here and participating in this random silliness.
At least once. When they brought out the Apple TV 3.