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Netflix to End Support for 2nd and 3rd Generation Apple TV
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Yeah hilarious ,DO NOT BUY!!! NEW ONE INCOMING.....but only minor update lol
Got your point, however, I am not the one saying new equals better, M1 is 3,5 years old. M1 is super technology, but Apple has own vision of product lifecycle. How many of us know when Apple will start cutting its support for the M processor line ? If Apple TV, then M3, M4 which is absurd overkill imho. Or keep the A processor line. I wish I could use the Apple TV storage in a more free way rather than how Apple wants me to use it.
Have a nice day.
Absolutely. They’re just hoping you get distracted by another mediocre original series so they can justify dumping billions into making them.
I’m sure they based this decision on the number of those devices still connecting to their servers and probably feel the number is small enough now to cut support.
yeah, apple changing their sign-in auth method on the backend while neglecting to issue the change to users devices effectively killed it, along with any chance of me ever buying anything like this from them again.Sadly Apple abandoned it years ago. Can’t sign into iCloud Photos anymore.
Why would Netflix continue to maintain software on old devices that are used by a tiny proportion of their users? It takes resources to do that, especially as the apps and software features are constantly getting updates. Edit: They would likely have held back on feature updates to ensure all their apps can support the older devices.
Since when DID they support Apple TV? Their app does not work in the Apple TV eco system like all the other apps with „next up“ shortcuts etc, interactive videos do not work, for most settings you need to log in on a browser. Worst streaming experience ever.
The Apple TV Netflix app feels like an afterthought and a way of Netflix giving the finger to Apple and its users of whatever reason they might have.
The Apple TV Netflix app feels like an afterthought and a way of Netflix giving the finger to Apple and its users of whatever reason they might have.
Yeah. Who care about Netflix at all. And other devil companies. We vote every day with our wallets not every 4 years. And who case about TV at all. My is just AirPlay display.
My Mum still has one of these. It has a very ancient tvOS version, no App Store, and ironically even AppleTV+ no longer works on it. But it still supports Netflix (for now) and AirPlay, so she often streams content to it from other apps on her iPad.
We’ve tried to upgrade her to a newer model, and even did swap it out for a newer one at one point, but she angrily rejected it because the new one seemed to cause various crashes and problems and she didn’t like the new UI? Oh well…
Huh? Apple TV app has easily the best UI of any of these services. Just a shame the Apple TV+ content is so sparse and mostly boring, except for a handful of accidental hits like Severence.
Prime does get an honorable mention for being the only one to show user reviews and IMDb ratings in-app, however. I hate how everyone else seems to not want you to have this, as if they want to waste your time watching junky content?
Haha, Netflix sucks. Overpriced and no good content. Y'all keep paying their high fees and get almost nothing from their catalog. Stop paying for their prices and you'll see changes with their service. Easiest way to get a company to change is to hurt their profits - that's all they care about.
Prime Video makes using Apple TV to find content useless. I search for something and it always shows up in “How to Watch”. But this is not true. I can watch it in Prime if I have a Paramount +, HBO Max or some other subscription service I’ve never heard of. And the experience to discover whether I can actually watch it or not on Prime without another service is terrible. When I select to open Prime from “How to Watch” it always makes me select a user rather than taking me directly to the content. I can only assume no one who works on the app has ever used it.
One thing Netflix plays nice with on Apple TV is, if you have the Netflix app icon on the top row of the home page, when you highlight that icon, it will show a row of Netflix content above that you can shortcut to.
At this point I see no downside to Netflix going all in on Apple TV, giving it all the bells and whistles. I'd think it would be worth the effort for them.
So why doesn't Netflix continue to support the old ATVs? Supporting new hardware is where the trouble is, right? That's where you have to constantly chase Apple's latest OS changes and hardware tweaks. Aren't the older hardware players a NON-moving target?
If it works, Netflix, you don't need to fix it! As ricketysquire points out, you've already written code to present Netflix on those devices, so just keep that code, back it up, and keep using it. Your subscribers will be happy and you can continue to ding their credit cards without having to do anything to maintain your software!
I have a 1st gen and 2nd gen Apple TVs that have been sitting unused in drawers for years. After learning about Roku years ago, I will never buy another Apple TV.
So with this news is there anything that can be done with this old hardware? Can they be modded and used in another way? Or are they just bricks at this point?
So with this news is there anything that can be done with this old hardware? Can they be modded and used in another way? Or are they just bricks at this point?
What do you like better about Roku?
I think they might be able to be jailbroken if they’re not past a certain tvOS version.
I have one I still use to airplay to projectors and TVs when I’m giving presentations/teaching?