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Single Sign-On Now Available in tvOS 10.1 and iOS 10.2

These comments are crazy. Yeah, your cable company isn't one of the first four to the beta party. Cry about it some more.

Tomorrow morning, call up your company's customer service and tell them how important it is that they get on board with this in a timely manner. That's all you really can do.

Jesus, Monday they could release the update featuring all cable co's and you all would still find something to complain about.
 
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This is in iOS 10.2 beta 1. Seems like the same option

Edit: Didn't notice it said iOS 10.2
 
petsounds said:
This particular feature doesn't matter much to me, I'd much prefer everything be under my Apple ID account. I don't want to deal with cable companies or networks at all, I just want per-channel subscriptions at reasonable prices..
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When every network (CBS, HBO, ETC) wants $5 - $15 a month the prices just don't add up. I get everything I wanted with sling so i'm pretty happy. Granted everyones needs are different. If i can access all of slings ~10 major networks apps for the Same $20 i already spend i'll be very impressed.
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lsutigerfan1976 said:
I'm not seeing it. I have the latest beta installed.

EDIT: I got it now. I had to reboot a few times. It is odd no DIRECTV and others. Kind of odd to enable a feature to beta test, and you cannot test it till December lol.

What is also comical is they have sling on there. The only two apps I know that are tv everywhere with sling is espn and fx. Not sure if that was even needed for sling tv.
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Unless more networks are coming....
 
When thiz will be 4 carplay? I wanna watch tv while i drive my car dude
 
I don't see it anywhere, on any device. I assuming it's beta only… The title is a bit click-baity and leads you to believe it's available to everyone.
 
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scottishwildcat said:
Yeah, because cable companies are so notoriously forward-thinking and easy to work with, if you just give them six months or so.
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Perhaps people should be calling their cable companies and complaining instead. We all know they're the roadblocks with this stuff.
 
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macTW said:
Read the fine print... other providers, sign in on apps directly. When I use TNT, ESPN, XFINITY, etc. I just sign in with my comcast information and keep it logged in.
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Yea that has always been the case for all the apps.
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wpmason said:
These comments are crazy. Yeah, your cable company isn't one of the first four to the beta party. Cry about it some more.

Tomorrow morning, call up your company's customer service and tell them how important it is that they get on board with this in a timely manner. That's all you really can do.

Jesus, Monday they could release the update featuring all cable co's and you all would still find something to complain about.
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Don't think people are crying that bad. It is just hard to believe some of the biggest cable providers are not listed.
 
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can't wait until this is wider spread on all devices. Drives me nuts having to reactivating 30 different services EVERY month on 5 or 6 different devices.
 
Not to dis the feature, but isn't the whole point of ATV, Chromecast, FireTV, Roku, etc. to "cut the cord" and give the middle finger to the cable/sat providers?
 
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About time but unfortunate so few providers are participating. I don't know why Apple doesn't do an end-run here and hook in iCloud's password vault to ATV. It would give Apple users a more consistence experience among all Apple OSes too. And frankly, with ATV being the most expensive of the major cord cutting boxes it should.
 
The complaints in here makes no sense. THIS IS A BETA!!! You expect full functionality and/or Apple to force Cable companies to support this beta version???
 
ummm you cant sign into multiple? I have both Sling and Comcast. Both of which provide me different programing options.
 
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Not to dis the feature, but isn't the whole point of ATV, Chromecast, FireTV, Roku, etc. to "cut the cord" and give the middle finger to the cable/sat providers?
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Not when all of those devices have 100% dependency on the cable company's cord. In other words, if you literally cut the cord, all those devices become door stops. Cable will get theirs no matter what. We should quit deluding ourselves that all of us can "beat" the cable company when they are also the only broadband provider for most of us. They will get theirs either way.

I suspect cord cutting means we will eventually be paying net more for net less. In other words, save the $100/month for "200 channels I never watch" by being a trendy "cord cutter." When the masses move on this concept, Cable will want to make up for the revenue losses. Tiered pricing for "higher bandwidth users like video streamers" gets implemented. Now our $50-$80 broadband bill rises to $80-$120 for broadband only. Then we also subscribe to Netflix, Hulu and various individual apps for maybe $30-$50 more. Where our cable+broadband combo used to cost $60-$100, now our cord-cut "cable" plus broadband costs $130-$170 and we have access to much less programming... though conceptually, only the stuff we want to watch (until of course, some other stuff is running on apps or channels not in our subscription pool... then we just pay more for it or do without).

Step a little more forward in time and read threads full of people whining for some kind of "value package" where all programming is available in a single app for a relatively low price, perhaps with some kind of on-screen guide that simply shows everything available to watch right now and maybe some DVR-like functionality... just like the "good old days": "I remember when I could get 500 channels for about $70/month. I rarely watched many of them but they sometimes had something interesting on. Now I pay $150/month for what is equivalent to about 10 channels in the old system. I used to think al-a-carte would cost so much less but it's actually much more expensive. Those greedy cable companies stuck it to us again. The Government should do something about this. Apple should do something about this. etc.";)
 
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julesme said:
Single Sign On is not that big of a deal to me. Let's say I have around 10 TV apps that I use on my iPad, all of which reference the same cable subscription. Signing in to each one ONCE is not a major headache, especially since the list of apps does not change much over time.

The real inconvenience is when an individual app occasionally deletes/forgets the credentials and asks me to sign in again, as if I've never used the app before (CNBC does this around once/month). If Single Sign On prevents this from happening, then it's a Godsend. Otherwise I don't care.
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This made me chuckle. But this is exactly what single sign on is for. Lol.
 
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