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Apple to Sunset iTunes Movie Trailers App, Roll into TV App
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Gonna miss it because it was great for looking up showtimes compared to apps like Fandango that are full of ads and garbage. It was very clean, simple, and ad-free. No cruft.
This a million times over. I still use it for checking movie times across theater chains. It’s not full of all that crap from fandango or atom.
Same. I'm actually getting annoyed with trailers now, but mainly all the trailers that happen before the movie. I really want to go to a movie that says it starts at 6:00 PM and it actually starts at 6:00 PM.
I don’t mean ads in the content though I did actually see that once on a current “season pass” viewing of rick and morty, they played a preroll ad as part of the video.
I mean having to navigate the tv app which defaults to the tv+ tab, has a giant ad banner at the top of and all over the watch now tab, and at least once a week puts up a full screen takeover with a big button to subscribe to mls, mlb, or tv+, with only a small “not now” to decline.
That’s what I mean. I miss the days when I could just view my purchases in a list in itunes, double click the video, and watch it without being bothered.
Also the tv app now shrinks the last 30 seconds or so of the video assuming it’s credits to show you a giant still of the next episode. Problem is the shows I purchased have content during that time and there’s no way to turn that behavior off.
So yes, they turned the only place I can watch content I regretfully purchased from them into an ad platform. And even aside from the ads, every change they have made to it for the last several versions has made the experience worse and worse. When it first came out and tv+ didn’t exist yet it was fine. Then came tv+ and it just gets worse with every version.
Yeah they have done a good job of integrating all of this in the last few years
(I remember it not being great when Apple Music initially launched).
It is the one part of their ecosystem that feels quite complex - for a company that strives for simplicity it feels like an outlier.
Do you think he goes to movies or has everything brought to him to view Vision Pro
I know right? Just another money grubbing move by the anticompetitive penny pinching CEO. Hopefully the EU can set this right. Now, if I want to see trailers Apple is hosting, I have to use the TV app. Apple using an Apple App to view movies hosted by Apple on Apple’s services? THAT is called MONOPOLY!
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That's where reserved seating in theaters is great. You can show up 15-20 minutes after the start time and skip most, if not all, of the trailers without having to worry about not getting a seat.
I regularly use the app in the ATV.
I would observe that i nowadays I have trouble finding multi season box sets to buy.
I would observe that i nowadays I have trouble finding multi season box sets to buy.
The one really great feature Fandango has is the ability to see the seating availability for every showing of a particular movie at a theater for the day in one view. I don’t think anyone else has that. Wish their app didn’t suck so badly. They literally have an interstitial ad that plays every launch.
Had also forgotten this was a thing.
Was never seemingly pre-installed over here in the UK and given Siri never had the ability (at launch, certainly) to be able to book tickets for the cinema…
Was never seemingly pre-installed over here in the UK and given Siri never had the ability (at launch, certainly) to be able to book tickets for the cinema…
I know it opens up a can of worms of bots & spam, but does anyone else wish Apple Music, TV and now Trailers had a review/comment section? I know it sounds silly but sometimes I go on YouTube just so I can read the comments on a favorite song of mine while listening to it. 🤷♂️
Have not used it in the recent past. Won't miss it.
I mean kidding aside, it is taking something that was accessible via the web and moving it into a proprietary application. This is not a good trend in general.
Of course Apple basically started / popularized this trend in the first place.
I remember when Windows did the ecosystem game way back. Windows opened up and now Apple does the ecosystem game but pumped on steroids. Granted, the security thing is a thing but...
I wish they would sunset the phrase “to sunset”
Watching all the new trailers, in bed, was our Sunday-morning routine for my ex and I back in the day.
(Who remembers Front Row, which was basically the original Apple TV interface but on macOS?)
Ahhh, nostalgia…
NO. ONE. BUYS. MUSIC. ANYMORE.They're not gonna kill the iTunes Store. iTunes is still the only place to buy music digitally, and they spent too long getting all the record labels and estates to host their music onto iTunes. Remember in November 2010 when there was a massive frenzy that Apple got the entire Beatles catalog on iTunes, which at the time was considered impossible. It was such a big thing that they had billboards all across the US and UK announcing "Yes! We finally did it! We actually got the Beatles!"
They may rebrand the iTunes Store as the Apple Music Store, but they're not gonna get rid of the store. It would be a stupid move to do that and be a loss of a revenue stream.
The very tiny fraction of people who do are likely not contributing enough $$$ to warrant running and maintaining iTunes - and they are quite obviously working towards sunsetting iTunes (not necessarily music purchases).
You're referencing a business model 20 years old - the music industry is all about streams now. Move purchases into the Music App - it's where they go anyway.
The only real item left in iTunes Apple hasn't solved is ring tones - the thing they make as hard as possible for the average person to get without buying on an iPhone. Even that - not many people buying them.
I talked an average person through getting a tune from YouTube and using Garageband to create the ringtone. And this is someone that didn’t want to know all the details, just wanted a one time ringtone.
It’s the same as with music, those with the money and not the time or patience will pay. A free way to create ringtones for iOS has existed for awhile.
Favorite thing about the app version of Trailers was the ability to fins where/when a movie was playing locally. That was really useful but seems to have gone away. Favorite thing on the web version was searching through genres for upcoming and current movies with their trailers. I appreciate that Apple has always included a decent depth of trailers, including indie and arthouse films. Glancing at this new trailer area within the ATV app, it has none of that.