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Tim Cook Says New Apple TV Will Ship Next Week, Orders Begin Monday
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We might get the right hardware, but still Siri is only available in 10% of the countries. Which is sad, because we have Siri in our phones, why not on the TV?
I'm in one of the tiny number of countries (a little place called the United States of America) that will support Siri on release, so its a big win for me. I feel as though I have won the lottery!
How can that be? tvOS is a brand new OS. There hasn't been 8 releases before this, it's the first one. Maybe with the beta's they are calling it that because it is in some part based off of iOS? I'm guessing that when the boxes come to us next week we'll see tvOS 1.0 on them.
Nice troll buried in here, hehe. I got a Fire TV of 4K, oh wait there is no 4K content!I can't wait to watch movies in 4K on an ATV!!!!!!!! Oh wait, that's why I ordered a Fire TV.
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App Store? I guess...Siri remote? Sure,it's there. I just want it for the new interface and overall speed plus the live screensavers. As much as I use the ATV in my family room,I welcome the new interface. I have a dedicated laptop and 4tb of (iTunes) content to stream to my Apple TV's. I currently have 3 ATV's in my house and this will be the 4th.
We watch movies and tv shows on all 3 units all the time. I also have a Logitech harmony elite remote to control everything,so I'll barely use the Siri remote.
We all have our different reasons for why we may purchase the new ATV. Mine aren't probably a big deal to anyone but me,but enough to justify my purchase.
Can't wait for the new menu.
We watch movies and tv shows on all 3 units all the time. I also have a Logitech harmony elite remote to control everything,so I'll barely use the Siri remote.
We all have our different reasons for why we may purchase the new ATV. Mine aren't probably a big deal to anyone but me,but enough to justify my purchase.
Can't wait for the new menu.
WTF?! It's like they are deliberately doing everything possible to get me to NOT buy tje damn thing. I live in Finland, my phone is set to use english as the system language (for typing I alternate between finnish and russian keyboards) and I regularly use Siri in english. Being able to control this thing via Siri was one of the main selling points for me. No Siri = no sale.
Will definitely be ordering this Monday, I don't have a 4K TV and don't plan on getting one for years so I don't care about this not having 4K
hopefully Vudu gets added to this
hopefully Vudu gets added to this
Nope. It's tvOS 9.0. Just connect your Apple TV 4 Devkit with your Mac and open iTunes.
https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/tvos/releasenotes/General/RN-tvOSSDK-9.0/index.html
You may be right on whether a few connectors may or may not outweigh binned circuit boards. It's hard for either of us to know without hard statistics. You're optimistic Tim's answer would be in line with yours, I'm optimistic of the opposite.
Would it take the materials in a hundred connectors to equal the environmental impact of a complete main logic board? Perhaps. It then comes down to how many connectors are eliminated across all units vs. the increase in the number of circuit boards binned as a result of eliminating those connectors on the failed units. Apple has the numbers, neither of us do. However, Apple would be a very poorly run company if it failed to do that analysis on anything less than a constant basis. So, what do Apple's practices tell us?
The total economic cost of these changes embraces far more than repair costs. Reducing the number of connectors reduces the manufacturing cost, which reduces the selling price or offsets the cost of new components and features, all of which are supposed to result in greater sales. Are those gains offset by increases in repair cost, or are there reduced repair costs as well? It's a good question, with no obvious answer.
The cost of warranty repair (and the occasional cost of post-warranty repair extensions) is built into the selling price, and longer-term repair costs are built into the price of AppleCare... so again, to operate profitably, Apple has to be intimately aware of these costs.
Still, the question for me focuses more on whether long-term reliability is significantly aided. Does,on average, reducing the number of connectors add one month to the life of a MacBook, or a full year? If it added, say, 15% to the useful life of the device, the number of entire MacBooks "saved" from landfill over the long haul can be huge. The fact that individual repairs may be more costly when they are required has less to do with environmental impact or actuarial costs and more to do with equity - the cost falls more heavily on the (relative) few who have to pay. For consumers, that looms large. Organizations with large number of units in service are more likely to benefit.
Regardless, the trend, industry-wide, is always in the favor of greater large scale integration.
What kind of apps are you looking forward to see on an Apple TV? Genuinely curious.
Just did that and it says:
Siri, play the song be yourself.
Starting face time with Eileen Pierce mobile
I have tried pausing, saying things slowly, giving the band with the songs , being on wifi
lte , it just doesn't do it for me.
Just assume I am creative enough to word things in different ways.
In my case it doesn't matter what I say.
Maybe I'm trying to understand the product more..? Given that this is.. An apple products forum?
There is actually some nice 4K content available for streaming already. Netflix has some of its excellent original series such as House of Cards and Daredevil, as well as 3rd party movies (e.g. Philadelphia) and TV shows (e.g. Breaking Bad). Similarly Amazon has e.g. Orphan Black, Mozart in the Jungle, as well as a handful of movies. It's not a lot yet, but what's there looks excellent.
While those shows and movies/documentaries may be "nice", it's still a very limited selection. It's going to be quite a long time before 4K content matches Full HD content in availability.
True, but I don't need it to match all the existing HD content. A decent selection of new content would easily be worth it. I watched some of the Daredevil episodes in 4K and was impressed by the image quality. There is really no excuse for Apple not to support this, especially given that the Amazon and Roku boxes have that capability and even cost less.
CBS just landed on apple tv for $5.99/Month - they said " live tv steaming in select markets where they own an over the air station" - i wonder how you figure that out - although i'm in nyc so i'm sure they do. I am sooooooooo close to cord cutting!!!!
CBS All Access also includes live TV streaming in select major markets, where the network owns and operates the over-the-air station.
CBS All Access also includes live TV streaming in select major markets, where the network owns and operates the over-the-air station.
I can't wait to watch movies in 4K on an ATV!!!!!!!! Oh wait, that's why I ordered a Fire TV.
WHAT movies??? Where? "um... um... gimme a minute... no maybe an hour.... can I get back to you?"
The selection is incredibly limited right now. And the majority of the USA still watches cable. Look how many years it took for 1080p broadcast television. Unless they're watching the limited programming available outside of cable, cable viewers who bought one simply wasted their money because all they're watching is 1080p television on their "new" 4K tv.
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Because it would be confusing to have iOS on 9 while tvOS is way back at 1.0. This is common to match things even if tvOS is new. It's still based on iOS version 9. It's not as if they created it from scratch.
I'm willing to bet money it'll be called tvOS 9 when released.
I've been eagerly awaiting this release for a long time, but in the end I ordered a Roku 4 instead. I loved the ATV2 and 3, but the Roku 4 has Amazon Instant Video (along with all the apps my family uses), and it doesn't appear the ATV will get that access. If it does, I might return, but I'm looking forward to trying something new.
I enjoy watching people awkwardly carrying their iMac through the mall.
I can't wait to watch movies in 4K on an ATV!!!!!!!! Oh wait, that's why I ordered a Fire TV.
Which by the way works nicely.
You don't. The people who used old-fashioned candy-bar and flip-phones didn't NEED to upgrade to an iPhone 3G (or later) just to run some apps. One could make phone calls just fine on those older mobile phones. But many millions of people did upgrade to a newer iPhone; and iOS apps became a multi-billion dollar business. Now it's tvOS's turn.