Tag Archive for ‘TV’

Michael Tsai:

The services apps are all frustrating to use. In may ways, they feel worse than Web apps. I cannot believe how Apple has let them regress so much. I miss iTunes from 15 years ago.

I maintain an old Mac Mini that runs El Capitan and an even older iMac that runs Snow Leopard. iTunes is so much better on those older machines than the current state of the TV app, Apple Music, and Apple Podcasts.

My current pet peeve is the Podcast app’s lack of OPML export or import. What a terrible, user-hostile omission.

I was recently trying to export my subscriptions from Pocket Casts and import them into Apple Podcasts so I could use the Apple TV app to more conveniently playback video podcasts. But, no dice. There’s no way to just import an OPML file. I would have to go through and manually subscribe to every single podcast. I’m not going to do that over a hundred podcasts.

➝ Source: mjtsai.com

Lucas Shaw and Alex Webb, reporting for Bloomberg:

Some video partners have already been paying 15 percent of monthly subscription fees to Apple. The company is now extending the rate to all subscription video services as long as they are integrated with Apple’s new TV app, said the people who asked not to be identified because the changes aren’t public.

That’s one way to encourage these companies to integrate iOS and tvOS’s new features into their apps. I just hope it will entice Amazon to bring their video service to the Apple TV.

Just in case you needed another reason to cancel your cable subscription.

Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr, speaking with All Things D:

iTunes customers have shown they overwhelmingly prefer buying TV shows.

I preferred purchasing TV shows to renting as well, but only because the majority of television shows that I wanted to watch weren’t even available to rent. It’s hard to succeed with a TV show rental service when you only have content from two media companies.