This must have been what the developer of Jasmine was talking about when he announced that when Google was going to make this change he was going to pull Jasmine from the App store..
Looks like a lot more than just Jasmine is affected.
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YouTube App No Longer Available on Older Apple TV, iOS Devices
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This must have been what the developer of Jasmine was talking about when he announced that when Google was going to make this change he was going to pull Jasmine from the App store..
Looks like a lot more than just Jasmine is affected.
BL.
Oh yeah that reminds me, I just happened to read last week that the YouTube app in my Sony smart TV (circa 2012) is not going to work anymore. I imagine the same for many other brands as well.
http://esupport.sony.com/US/p/news-item.pl?news_id=487
http://esupport.sony.com/US/p/news-item.pl?news_id=487
YouTube App No Longer Available on Older Apple TV, iOS
Youtube has also stopped working on tinychat.com The video works for the person who played it, but all others get that "device" video.
Any thoughts wh, or a to fix?
Youtube has also stopped working on tinychat.com The video works for the person who played it, but all others get that "device" video.
Any thoughts wh, or a to fix?
This sucks. A lot of people still use 2nd gen Apple TVs, largely because they had no reason to get a new one.
Blocking the servers in your router still works i suppose, there is no way a company can force you to watch ads. There is always a way. (I'm not endorsing this).
Yeah, but that whoops looks to be more of a dig at Apple instead of an admission of misreading the OP. "Its like they want you to buy their new... oh wait whoops!" As in Apple purposely doesn't update the ATV to get you to buy a new one. The only thing it's missing is this -->
The existing YouTube app on iOS still cannot display portrait videos correctly. I end up using Safari. I get that Google hates portrait, but trying to prevent people from watching them won't make them go away.
I guess I have to upgrade my Apple TV... If I ever used the YouTube app on it. The only native app that gets used on it is Netflix. For everything else I just send the image to the Apple TV via AirPlay.
So, maybe this won't impact me at all...
I guess I have to upgrade my Apple TV... If I ever used the YouTube app on it. The only native app that gets used on it is Netflix. For everything else I just send the image to the Apple TV via AirPlay.
So, maybe this won't impact me at all...
In all fairness, Apple TV 2nd generation is nearly 5 years old product with A4 processor and 256MB RAM. Apple updated its OS for 4 years, which I think is more than reasonable.
IMO, Google is more of a blame, although I suspect it didn't get enough usage from 2nd generation Apple TV to warrant continuing support.
The Apple TV 2 runs iOS 7 but it no longer works yet every other ios 7 device works? That's dumb.
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"Oh wait...whoops" is apparently not supported under the old API. Everyone will need to update their devices in order to get the joke.
There is always the airplay option as long as you have another Mac / iOS device that still supports the new YouTube protocol but personally I've gone with the seas0npass jailbreak and installed Kodi (xbmc as was) which has a YouTube plugin that seems to support the new protocol nicely along with loads of other video plugins to extend functionality and I can also stream from my UPNP NAS box, functionality I really miss on my atv3 - the only iOS based device I think never to have been successfully jailbroken...
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Yeah well, this kind of kills the old "It still does everything it did the day you bought it" defense.
Really big changes, I accept that there's a limit on how long they'll support the hardware - though again for users there's very little change so little impetus to upgrade. I'm not expecting the app store to work on my ATV2s. But when new channels open up, I get it on the ATV2, so this is something they should fix.
It's probably fair to argue that none of the visible changes in Apple TV 7.x OS seem to warrant Apple TV 3 exclusivity. But there may be some under-the-hood changes would warrant such change. If I were to guess, it's peer-to-peer AirPlay, which requires iOS device running A5 or better. Or perhaps it's HomeKit added in 7.0.1.
Whatever the reasons are, at least you can jailbreak Apple TV 2 and sell it at substantial profit ($150-200).
And, of course, when people upgrade, those old devices go somewhere. Yeah, sometimes it is directly to the trash (or hopefully electronics recycler,) and sometimes in to a closet/attic/basement of the original owner - but often it gets re-sold.
I've been both the seller and the buyer of such devices.
Because of an API change? That's a pretty lousy reason.
A good reason would be some new streaming format that the hardware can't decode quickly enough.
YouTube changed the API.
But that's not the reason old devices won't work. The reason old devices won't work is because the apps for those devices won't be updated to work with the new API.
Whose fault is that? I'm not sure. I think with respect to the AppleTV it's Apple's fault, and with respect to iOS it's YouTube's fault. The reason for the different assignments of blame is one platform has an app store and the other does not.
But that's not the reason old devices won't work. The reason old devices won't work is because the apps for those devices won't be updated to work with the new API.
Whose fault is that? I'm not sure. I think with respect to the AppleTV it's Apple's fault, and with respect to iOS it's YouTube's fault. The reason for the different assignments of blame is one platform has an app store and the other does not.
