2025-02-18 06:36:28
It’s Myke’s last episode before paternity leave, so he and Jason draft Apple things they think will happen between now and his return.
2025-02-18 01:00:24
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2025-02-14 21:44:31
Matt Gemmell on switching back to the Mac after being iPad-only for a very long time:
Suffice to say then, that this was not a dalliance. The iPad was my one and only computer. I didn’t use a Mac for anything, unless I absolutely had to grab one for 5 minutes to get something done like flashing a new firmware onto a mechanical keyboard, or doing something on the (thankfully increasingly rare) web site that truly requires Chrome. Those recourses were countable on the fingers of one hand, per year. Until very recently, I don’t think I’d used a Mac in more than a year.
This is a long and thoughtful piece that has none of the drama you’d expect from the subject matter. Gemmell seems acutely aware of the limitations and advantages of both platforms.
2025-02-14 19:56:14
Update: According to The Verge, Netflix has said this integration was in error and is being rolled back. Boo, I say. Boo. As Six Colors contributor Joe Rosensteel wrote, “Netflix deeply regrets accidentally making Netflix a better product for its customers.”
Just yesterday on our Six Colors podcast, I suggested it was high time for Apple and Netflix to make a deal to get Netflix content in the Apple TV app. And it seems maybe, at long last, after years of no movement, finally such a deal is happening?
After hearing from a member in The Incomparable’s Discord that they’d gotten Netflix’s Midnight Mass to show up in their watchlist, I decided to give their method a shot. I searched for the show in tvOS’s unified search, hit the Open In… button, and sure enough was prompted if I wanted to connect Netflix to the Apple TV app.
Yes, please.
Unfortunately, since doing that (and verifying that Netflix does now appear in Settings > Apps > TV under the Connect to Tv section) I’ve been unable to actually get any shows to appear in my own watchlist, despite starting several episodes of various series. If this is indeed rolling out—as other places, such as 9to5Mac, are also now reporting—it’s doing so gradually.
But an end to our long national nightmare might finally be in sight and maybe the TV app will finally fulfill its destiny of being the place to see everything you want to watch. All it needs now is a live TV grid.
2025-02-14 07:32:43
Amazon’s Prime Video app just got a big update on Apple TV. The app is now better optimized for tvOS, allowing you to swipe on the Siri Remote to scroll through Prime Video’s shows and movies as well as use touchpad gestures for fast-forwarding, rewinding, and scrubbing through content.
As Joe Rosensteel pointed out just yesterday, one of the things Amazon does really well is live TV. The new app seems to have more “On now” signifiers (pointing to live channels) and offers a really solid live guide.
There was a time when Prime Video was one of the worst major streamer apps on tvOS, but those days are over.
