Apple TV app is now accessible on the Android TV platform, with Apple extending the app’s compatibility to incorporate Google’s fashionable working system for good TVs and streaming gadgets. Although Apple TV was initially solely accessible on Apple gadgets, the service has through the years been expanded to different gadgets and platforms corresponding to Amazon’s Fire OS ecosystem and LG’s webOS. Android TV is a big platform that covers good TVs from quite a few manufacturers and is a well-liked possibility in India the place many reasonably priced TV producers choose to make use of the OS for his or her good TVs.
The Apple TV app could be downloaded by means of the Google Play retailer for Android TV, and is obtainable for Android TV gadgets operating Android TV 8 and later with entry to the Google Play retailer already, as per a report by 9to5Google. We tried this on Realme Smart TV 4K 43 (Review), and had been in a position to set up and check in to Apple TV app with no hitch. Content is accessible at as much as Ultra-HD decision, with assist for HDR as much as Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, as supported by the tv itself.
This is an enormous step from Apple, significantly for customers in India the place the Android TV platform is a well-liked one. Many tv producers throughout varied value segments use Android TV for his or her good TVs, together with Sony, Xiaomi, Realme, TCL, Vu, and OnePlus, to call just a few. Apple TV will now be accessible on all these gadgets, permitting streaming of flicks in the stores or lease, in addition to the Apple TV+ subscription service that’s the residence to Apple’s critically acclaimed unique reveals, corresponding to Ted Lasso and The Morning Show.
Apple TV’s key rivals Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ (Disney+Hotstar in India) have been accessible on the Android TV platform for some time now. Although the app and repair was introduced on the Amazon Fire TV platform in late 2019, its availability on Android TV has been a very long time coming. It additionally indicators Apple’s intent to be seen extra critically as a supplier of providers corresponding to music and video streaming for customers past the Apple {hardware} ecosystem, relatively than solely as a producer of {hardware}.