Let's hope this move from Apple forces Google to put some more effort into marketing Android TV.
It's a good (superior?) platform, but could definitely use a little better app-support.
It's a good (superior?) platform, but could definitely use a little better app-support.
And I don't know that superior / inferior plays into it really. Standalone Android TV devices just don't make a lot of sense because there's no demand for them. Consumers trust Apple to make shitty experiences less shitty, so until Apple leads, there is no market. It's the same as it was (is?) for tablets: there's not really a market for tablets, but there's a market for iPads. I think that's what we'll see with the Apple TV.
Google's corporate culture is to move fast and break things. That works great for online services that you can iterate on rapidly and fix for everyone quickly, but once you sell a product to a consumer how does it get updates? How does it get fixed? How do you overcome a bad initial experience? Apple has faced all of these problems and over many years has built addressing them in to it's DNA, it's corporate instincts. Google has never had a good answer to these questions.
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.fl...