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I don’t want to sound like a corporate shill, but Apple TV is not a bad offering as streaming services go. $7/month and plenty of good shows, including Ted Lasso (one of my favorite shows of all time), Mythic Quest (made by most of the Always Sunny team), Shrinking (starring Harrison Ford and Jason Segal), Schmigadoon (musical-spoof that’s really fun), and more.
My biggest complaint with it is that there isn’t an Android phone/tablet app, but you can watch it in-browser on Android devices. Otherwise it’s available everywhere (including Android TVs). You don’t need any Apple devices to use the streaming service.
The browser version seems deliberately bad. They didn't even have a search bar until this year. The shows are good, but the non apple interface is pretty awful.
I don't like the company in general, so I don't want to support them. You aren't a corporate shill for not sharing that opinion, but I really don't want to support them unless I think it is unreasonable to avoid doing so.
While it is "available" on non-apple devices, I've heard almost exclusively negative things about how it runs on the devices I do most of my watching.
Apple tv content is some of the easiest to illegally access content around. Almost no work and $0 is better than $7.
I don't subscribe to anything I don't already know for certain I'll like anyways, I have trouble trusting reviews and other peoples opinions on media. I'll watch on a friends account or something first, or not at all. Streaming services that don't have a free with ads tier are not something I really approve of, it feels like buying a mystery.
Fair enough! Pirate Ted Lasso if you haven’t yet, it’s amazing!
The browser version on windows doesn't even play in high resolutions (looks almost like DVDs). I'm not sure what resolution it plays in, but I started pirating apple TV stuff again, even though I am subscribed to Apple TV. Probably gonna cancel it at some point.
The version on android TV plays in 4k and looks really good, but I mostly watch on a windows PC...
No Chromecast support, that's my issue.
It they added that I'd be subscribed but without it I'm out.
Ah, I can understand that. I never got onto the Chromecast train. I got a free one with my YouTube RED subscription that came with a free Stadia controller, but I never really use it. Between my “smart” TV, game console, and HDMI-to-laptop I’m generally covered.
I mean the fact that it is a streaming service offered by apple is enough of a reason for most people to steer clear
There are plenty of reasons to dislike Apple. A streaming service that doesn’t require any of their devices doesn’t seem like a particularly awful thing, even if their implementation for Android is garbage.
But hey, that’s just me. And I was able to set aside my dislike of Apple as a company and my over-a-decade of Android use to switch to their phones so my family and my wife’s family could continue to use their precious iMessage and I wouldn’t miss out on pictures and videos of my niblings (seriously fuck Apple for iMessage), so maybe I’m too middle-of-road on this for clear anti-Apple vision.
/shrug
Don't let them win, your family are a lost cause but you can still be saved :O
Honestly I don’t hate iOS. It had been a LONG time since I had used it, and they’ve made serious improvements. There are certainly things I miss from Android (better notifications, better gestures, able to change what buttons do), but it’s been ages since I bothered rooting or using custom ROMs, so I haven’t lost nearly as much as I thought I would.
iOS is much better on battery life, as a general rule. Also the Apple Watch meshes with the iPhone in a way that WearOS can only pretend at.
I had a really annoying transition period, but once I got into the iOS workflow I was fine. Had to rethink how I do certain things, but honestly I feel like I navigate modern springboard faster than I did Nova or whatever home screen I was using on Android.
(Of course my springboard looks completely different from the average iOS user, since I came from Android and other iOS user’s ugly monstrosities evolved over years of using substandard, terrible springboard before it was finally made good.)
I’ve made sure to keep my data up to date in Google so I can transition back if something from the Android side really wows me, but for now I’m pretty happy.
Edit: Not really sure why this got downvoted. I’m not advocating anything here, just sharing my experience. Sorry I’m not miserable, I guess?