What games are you experiencing this? I have to yet to notice any in the games I've tried out.
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MLB App No Longer Available on Third-Generation Apple TV
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What games are you experiencing this? I have to yet to notice any in the games I've tried out.
Absolutely nothing ? Quite a few things come to mind why the developer decided not to sunset the software.
And who says you can’t use old tech? I have a running windows 95 machine, but it won’t load the new MS Office or get me 100 FPS in Cyperpunk. I can use my 90s Nokia cell phone but I can’t run apps, maybe Snake! I can use my Sony trinitron TV but can’t run 4K on it. And yes I can use my Apple TV 3. I have it in the guest room. As with any older tech it doesn’t do things as well as the new hotness.
Cool well I don’t know what most of that was about but if the app came with the Apple TV at some point clearly it’s capable of running it??? Your cyberpunk example was funny and all but that’s not even the same thing and you know it.
“Is it maybe that the new season is in 1 month and they wanna upsell with Apple?”
“Nah but my old TV can’t play 4K”
O…kay
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Read my previous replies on this thread. I really doubt MLB would want to lessen its install base if they could bring a good experience to the user. It’s a discussion had in every software dev house, when to sunset and EOL legacy support. And it always comes down to new software features and the limitations of older devices.
MLB made a choice that effort to keep parity on legacy versions of the OS and hardware didn’t have the ROI to make it worth while.
It’s not Apple trying to usher people into newer hardware.
Edit - Btw I totally get what you’re saying. If you see some of my forum posts I’m probably one of the most resistant to upgrades. I keep my devices 3-5 years at least. I’ve had MacBooks go 7 and fit my needs.
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It sure would be nice to do something other than rubbish them off to some e-waste thing that's just going to bury them anyhow...
I know ONE dude who watches EVERY Tigers MLB game on this thing.
It blew my mind they existed.
It blew my mind they existed.
I agree. If it can’t handle the latest capabilities, just don’t update it that’s fine, but keep it functional.
That’s one loyal fan right there. I’ve been suffering watching the Knicks for years, but they seem to finally be turning things around.
Of interest: If you connect a computer to your TV, (or just airplay from a Mac to your AppleTV) you can use a standard web browser to tap into the MLB live streams of pretty much all of the games (including the currently ongoing spring training games) for free, direct from the source.
That source, for reference: https://mlb-live.stream/
(Note that you'll have to put up with some minor annoyances, such as pop-up ads injected in the most inconvenient of places, but they're manageable. Just don't fall for any of the plethora of clickbait links to the various paid services that they would prefer you use -- and likewise ignore the misleading "members only" links, that show up when a given stream isn't yet active.)
That source, for reference: https://mlb-live.stream/
(Note that you'll have to put up with some minor annoyances, such as pop-up ads injected in the most inconvenient of places, but they're manageable. Just don't fall for any of the plethora of clickbait links to the various paid services that they would prefer you use -- and likewise ignore the misleading "members only" links, that show up when a given stream isn't yet active.)
Right, but you can still use Office '98 and it will work just as well as it did the day you bought it. Now and also in a hundred years. That's why George R. R. Martin writes Game of Thrones on a computer running DOS.
In today's brave new world, it doesn't work like that. Basically everything you do on an Apple TV relies on someone else's server, running somewhere out there in the world. And so I think the operator of that server really ought to leave an older instance running.
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The Office 98 wasn't a great analogy, however 98 version I'm sure is leagues behind what it can do on their latest. And you can't compare a offline product to one that needs to be connected, so again a bad analogy on my part.
If architectural changes are made that fundamentally change MLB's platform, going back to retrofit and branch legacy software may not be worth the ROI. There are several reasons why companies decide to end of life online products, and we can only speculate. MLB I'm sure has data analytics/metrics to guide their decisions, IE platforms their subs come from. If there was a lot of money left on the table to offset the effort, I'm sure they'd do what they could not to sunset the ATV3 app.
While it would be great to support legacy products indefinitely, it's not realistic depending on circumstances.
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I think there's a widespread, fundamental flaw with how we're building technology nowadays. Remember when TVs used to last for decades? How often did people replace their antennas?
It would be one thing if streaming devices were getting drastically better every year, in the way computers were in the 90s. And to be clear, the new Apple TV certainly has a more powerful CPU and has a lot of great new features... but it's hard to fundamentally re-invent video playback.
It's a much larger issue than the Apple TV and this one app, but I think the entire technology industry is filled with completely needless, wasteful churn. How much time did Slack spend rejiggering their UI ten million times last year? Is Slack's UI actually better now? Is it so much better that it's worth it for all your users to re-learn where the buttons are? And how many old devices did you drop support for, in order to "streamline development" so you could make all those interface revamps? Who does it really benefit?
/endrant, I guess.
Yes but whenever they do changes on the mir servers they’ll have to test it on one OS less.
I've found a way around this issue on my ATV3s...using my iPad Pro, I launch a game on it using the MLB app, then use screen-mirroring (control center) on my iPad and select my ATV3 from the menu. Results are much better than trying to use Airplay, which resulted in a highly reduced resolution and latency.
It's definitely becoming an increasing issue. Just think about your "smart" home. How much is going to be necessary to update in ten years because of an OS issue when most of it is really just things like turning lights on and off? Sorry, sir, we're going to have to rewire your whole house because your old House3.5 isn't supported anymore...
I know this is an old thread, but screen mirroring no longer works. Now the MLB app says "screen recording not permitted". They force you to buy a new Apple TV. They did the same thing with the Tennis Channel app. It worked fine on my 3rd gen ATV and then suddenly they decided to no longer support it.