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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Apple TV 9/25/2018 01:09:00 AM

Tim Cook Reins in Apple’s Risqué Programming

Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll

Tim Cook has reportedly had to intervene in Apple’s burgeoning offering of original programming, after concerns over the mature content in a commissioned biopic of rapper and producer Dr. Dre.

The facets are taken issue with – depictions of sex, violence, and narcotics – are pretty common fare in today’s television landscape, especially for a music industry biopic, so we’re not sure what Cook expected. But Apple seems to be aiming for clean, family fare and is still figuring out what exactly their own programming is going to look like going forward.

The technology giant began shipping Apple TVs under Steve Jobs back in 2006 and has been looking to expand into its own original television programming in the vein of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and HBO.

That’s a difficult task from the get-go, given the glut of streaming services competing for viewers’ attention. Apple will also face particular competition from Disney, who are set to launch their own family-friendly streaming service – Disney Play – sometime in 2019.

Apple has already released its first original reality show, Planet of the Apps, which sees app developers compete for funding from a Dragons' Den-style panel, and the James Corden-hosted Carpool Karaoke.

Something old, something new

Apple’s great strength is in its brand image, which keeps consumers coming back to it year after year for each new generation of iPhones, MacBooks, and Apple Watches that promises trend-setting technological innovation.

Apple-made programming that plays it too safe might not capture its fans’ imaginations in the same way, while sending the message that the once-visionary brand isn’t as forward-thinking as it seems.

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Friday, March 30, 2018

iPhone 3/30/2018 04:14:00 PM

Apple releases iOS 11.3 with iPhone battery tool, new Animoji, and more

Updates are also available for the Apple Watch, HomePod, and Apple TV.

You can now check your iPhone battery's health and see if your phone is being throttled or slowed down due to an older battery. This feature is included in iOS 11.3, which Apple released on March 29.

Must read: iOS 11.3: Get your iPhone and iPad ready for the biggest update yet

Apple also released the first software update for its smart speaker, the HomePod. The Apple Watch and Apple TV received updates, too.

In addition to the new battery checking tool, iOS 11.3 introduces a new privacy icon to help users identify when Apple is requesting private information and not a third party.

Apple's augmented reality platform, ARKit, has also been updated to support horizontal surfaces. New Animoji in iOS 11.3 includes a lion, dragon, bear, and skull.

Messages in iCloud, a feature first announced at WWDC in 2017, was removed from the final release of iOS 11.3. The feature had been present throughout the entire beta program for iOS 11.3.

Additionally, starting in May in select EU countries -- and later worldwide -- Apple will release four new privacy tools.

From a user's Apple ID page, the following actions will be available:

Get a copy of your data
Request a correction to your data
Deactivate your account
Delete your account completely

You can update your iOS device over the air. Just go to Settings > General > Software Update.

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Saturday, December 16, 2017

Google 12/16/2017 06:19:00 PM

Amazon to start offering Apple TV and Google Chromecast once more

It's been a long time since Amazon evacuated the Apple TV and Google Chromecast from its store to "maintain a strategic distance from client perplexity."

Amazon will again start offering the Apple TV and Google Chromecast, following two years back expelling the items that rival its own Fire TV.

"I can affirm that we are grouping Apple TV and Chromecast," an Amazon representative told CNET on Thursday, offering no additional data.

Amazon is presently posting two variants of the Apple TV 4K, and also the Google Chromecast and Chromecast Ultra. The items are not yet accessible available to be purchased, but rather ought to be without further ado, Amazon said.

At the point when Amazon expelled the items two years prior, the organization asserted it needed to "maintain a strategic distance from client disarray." Amazon additionally doesn't offer Google-possessed Nest indoor regulator or security items.

Google and Amazon have been in an open argument about the issue, that brought about Google evacuating its YouTube application and site from the Amazon Fire TV and Echo Show.

"Google is setting a disillusioning point of reference by specifically blocking client access to an open site. We plan to determine this with Google at the earliest opportunity," an Amazon representative revealed to ZDNet a week ago after Google dropped YouTube from its gadgets.

It would seem that YouTube may return. Google told ZDNet on Thursday: "We are in profitable talks with Amazon to achieve an understanding for the advantage of our common clients. We trust we can achieve a consent to determine these issues soon."

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Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Apple TV 9/13/2017 10:46:00 PM

Apple declares Apple TV 4K, accessible September 22 for $179

Apple is revealing its initial 4K-empowered set-top box, and it has been working with content makers to get a lot of 4K video on the stage. Pre-orders start Sept. 15.

Apple reported the Apple TV 4K (Image: CNET/CBS Interactive)

Apple on Tuesday reported the Apple TV 4K, another set-top box that backings 4K Ultra HD determination and industry-standard HDR 10 and Dolby Vision.

The new Apple TV is fueled by the same A10x combination chip and 3GB of RAM in the iPad Pro, and Apple said the Apple TV refresh packs two times the preparing power than the past era.

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Apple has been working with Hollywood studios and Netflix to convey 4K and HDR titles to the refreshed Apple TV, SVP of programming and administrations Eddy Cue said at an occasion on Tuesday. Amazon Prime 4K video will convey its 4K substance to the Apple TV in the not so distant future.

Further, Cue said iTunes clients will get programmed redesigns of HD titles in their current iTunes libraries to 4K HDR renditions when they end up noticeably accessible.

Pre-orders for the new Apple TV 4K start on Sept. 15, with transportation slated to begin on Sept. 22. It will begin for $179 with 32GB of interior stockpiling or $199 with 64GB.

Beginning this month, Apple will grow its TV application past the US to Australia and Canada. Before the year's over, it will grow to France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the UK.

Signal additionally nitty gritty updates to the TV application for better games seeing. Fans in the US will have the capacity to track their most loved groups, get on-screen warnings, and see every one of the groups, classes, and donning occasions presently playing through a committed games tab.

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Sunday, June 18, 2017

Apple TV 6/18/2017 10:13:00 PM

Apple's most recent move demonstrates it is getting truly serious about TV

Apple has recently snatched two of the best individuals in the TV world

Apple is quitting any and all funny business about TV. Truly genuine. It's quite recently procured two individuals from Sony that are the among the best in the business.

Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg have been gobbled up by Apple to lead video programming worldwide for the organization, and will be answering to Eddy Cue.

While you may not know their names, you know the shows they had a major part in getting off the ground.

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At Sony Pictures they were responsible for primetime TV programming for over 10 years and greenlit various enormously effective shows, including Breaking Bad and its phenomenal turn off Better Call Saul, and in addition all the more as of late The Crown.

They comprehend what makes a decent TV show and they will most likely as of now be thinking about what indicates Apple needs to make its TV-production arm a win.

Show Busniess

Right now Apple has treaded delicately with its TV yield, reporting only two shows: Carpool Karaoke (set to presentation 8 August and as of now a major hit on YouTube) and Planet of the Apps.

The primary scene of Planet of the Apps circulated as of late through Apple Music and was met with tepid surveys.

Assortment said the show "has a craving for something that was created at a mixed drink party, and not given significantly more thorough idea or consideration after the pitcher of mojitos was depleted."

TechCrunch met Jeremy Liew who's a piece of the show, notwithstanding, and he said we ought to be watching it to get a look at how contribute gatherings function the genuine tech world - just with included Will.i.am.

Expect the following round of show declarations to be a great deal unique, given Erlicht and Van Amburg's history of programming scripted dramatization.

Talking about joining Apple, Zack Van Amburg stated: "Apple has a tenacious concentrate on enchanting clients with their items. We will convey that same expectation to Apple's customizing and we couldn't be more amped up for what lies ahead."

The majority of this is bad news for conventional TV channel producers. They are as of now observing their groups of onlookers lessen because of Netflix and Amazon's huge TV push. Presently Apple is adapting to be more required, there could be much additionally upsetting circumstances ahead.

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Monday, June 12, 2017

Apple TV 6/12/2017 02:35:00 PM

Apple TV 5th gen: what will we see from the new Apple TV?

An open door Apple shouldn't squander

Refresh: tvOS is getting a major refresh, which implies Apple TV will be a stunningly better spilling video gadget. It's getting an Amazon Video application, which is a decent begin considering its long nonappearance from the stage. Notwithstanding, regardless of these product declarations, Apple held back before reporting new equipment at WWDC 2017.

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With regards to TV gushing boxes, it's protected to state the Apple TV isn't precisely lord of the slope. We're right now in the item's fourth era, and Apple hasn't conveyed on the TV transformation it guaranteed. Truth be told, it's attempting to contend with other gushing choices like Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, and Roku.

There are many purposes behind its contracting piece of the overall industry, from its generally high cost to its uncompetitive substance and its absence of 4K support. We go into them in a great deal more detail here.

Be that as it may, while Apple's not at the highest point of its diversion with its TV gushing box, that doesn't mean it's out of the alliance totally. Regardless it has an opportunity to get things appropriate with another, fifth-era Apple TV, and here are every one of the gossipy tidbits about the new gadget. With nothing affirmed so far, the greater part of this could be liable to change, however there's a ton of data out there to draw upon.

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What is it? The fifth emphasis of Apple's associated TV box
At the point when is it out? Late 2017 is the likeliest time
What amount of will it be? There's no official value point at this time, however the cost is probably going to be layered and managed by hard drive measure.

Release date

Okay, in this way, Apple hasn't formally affirmed that another Apple TV is inevitable, yet it additionally hasn't said that there isn't one in transit. In a current profit call, Tim Cook told financial specialists that the organization was content with the way the new Apple TV was tagging along while prodding that there's "more things arranged" for it later on.

Considering it'll soon be a long time since we saw the last refresh to the gadget and before the end of last year the third-era Apple TV was pulled from stores, we think this is a genuinely decent sign that there's another model in transit soon.

Despite the fact that a declaration could occur whenever, there are a couple focuses during the time when Apple is well on the way to make some sort of Apple TV declaration. At first we thought its Worldwide Developers' Conference would turn out to be the scene, yet the meeting gone with no specify of new equipment.

Presently, a September declaration and October dispatch appears to be more probable. Especially as September is normally the time Apple makes its enormous equipment declarations.

How Much will it cost?

The present Apple TV will set you back $149 (£139/AU$239) for the 32GB adaptation and $199 (£179/AU$299) for the 64GB form which makes it a costly bit of pack contrasted with other spilling boxes available which much of the time come in at under $100.

In light of this, it wouldn't be a terrible thought for Apple to drop the cost of its most up to date display when it's discharged or enhance the substance it offers to legitimize its higher value point.

It's essentially sure that the Apple TV fifth-era will likewise offered layered evaluating and it's exceptionally likely Apple will keep the fourth-era Apple TV around at a lower value point as a more moderate option as it has done previously.

What components will it have?

Hardware

The fourth-era Apple TV was uncovered over three years after the third era show, however to compensate for the long break it was a genuinely huge refresh with a fresh out of the box new working framework, another remote and even Siri incorporation.

Something it was missing, be that as it may, was support for 4K and HDR content. At the point when the fourth-era Apple TV was propelled toward the finish of 2015, 4K video was in its early stages and apparently not sufficiently huge to legitimize including support for it around then.

Now that we're a decent piece of the path into 2017, 4K support is essentially a standard element on bigger top of the line TVs and as gushing administrations, for example, Netflix and Amazon quickly increment their 4K content spilling gadgets from Amazon, Roku and Google have rushed to discharge gadgets which bolster it as well.

This leaves the fourth-era Apple TV watching woefully obsolete contrasted with its rivals. On the off chance that Apple has any expectations of holding its little part of the piece of the overall industry, its new gadget ought to be fit for gushing 4K content.

Power, speed and configuration have never been an especially huge issue for the Apple TV yet it's still likely the new discharge will be somewhat speedier, somewhat more capable and maybe somewhat littler or slimmer.

It's likewise conceivable that Apple will present a bigger hard drive choice, or at any rate offer an approach to grow memory remotely. Not long ago Apple reported it was increasing the most extreme allocated estimate for applications on the Apple TV from 200MB to 4GB. This is awesome regarding conveying bigger applications to the gadget, yet the present Apple TV just comes in two sizes – 32GB and 64GB.

This implies despite the fact that it can hold bigger applications, the fourth-era Apple TV can't hold a large number of them so the presentation of a fifth-era Apple TV with 4K and HDR bolster and additionally a 128GB hard drive choice appears to probably us.

Programming

Beside fundamental equipment transforms, we envision the greatest changes we'll see will be in the gadget's product, especially as Apple's CEO Tim Cook has said that the new Apple TV and tvOS were "building the establishment for what [Apple] accept can be a more extensive business after some time."

At WWDC 2017 Apple reported that the Amazon Prime Video application would at long last be going to the stage, despite the fact that this declaration accompanied no say of new equipment.

Engineer logs spotted simply a month ago proposed that Apple is building up a gadget that runs tvOS 11, which recommends that an equipment declaration is en route to supplement the new programming.

Siri at home

Siri was acquainted with the Apple TV in 2016 so we envision its abilities will just keep on improving.

It's maybe conceivable that Apple will utilize Siri's incorporation into the Apple TV to venture into more savvy home capacities. Apple conveyed HomeKit control to tvOS 10 and afterward in tvOS 10.0.1 it supplemented this with support for App Launch and Wi-Fi Accessory Configuration which made it workable for HomeKit accomplices to dispatch and design by means of the Apple TV.

A conceivable subsequent stage is to bring the Home application as of now accessible on iPhone, Apple Watch and iPad to tvOS 11 and transform the Apple TV into a completely fledged home center point.

Not exclusively would this give Apple TV an approach to emerge from other gushing gadgets, it would enable Apple to all the while stay aware of Amazon's Echo and Google's Home gadgets without the inconvenience of acquainting a shiny new item with the market.

Content King

A key region where Apple should enhance is in the substance it offers. Apple has never possessed the capacity to meet its desire in the compensation TV space – it's neglected to make concurrences with key TV creation organizations and arrangements for a live TV gushing administration have never worked out as intended.

Notwithstanding, the current increment in application sizes permitted on the gadget recommends we'll absolutely observe some additionally gaming applications come to Apple TV later on and Apple gives off an impression of being endeavoring to make its own particular unique substance with things like Carpool Karaoke and Planet of the Apps. This unique substance in any event gives Apple something more to add to its TV application.

It's likewise as of late been accounted for that Apple is wanting to present an administration that would package channels together under one single month to month charge.

This administration would take channels, for example, HBO, Showtime and Starz which offer separate memberships and unite them all into one helpful package.

Nothing has been affirmed as to this and it would require a lot of transaction on Apple's part to set up a package that would offer a sufficiently focused cost to bait shoppers in. In any case, it would be an imaginative answer for the way that Apple as of now just offers singular channels and applications.

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