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Okay, I think I've got this figured out. Can someone check my working?

Color key:

    Green: Apple set-top box
    Yellow: App for Apple set-top box
    Orange: App for other Apple devices
    Red: App for third-party devices
    Yellow/Orange/Red stripe: App generally across all platforms
    Violet: Integrated external subscription content
    Blue: Apple subscription content
    Violet/Blue stripe: Content generally
    Rainbow stripe: Apple TV

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See also:

Apple TV (disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_TV_(disambiguation)

Original programming for Apple TV+ seems to be very good.

First three episodes for the "For All Mankind" (scifi) are good so are the three episodes for "See". The "The Morning Show" seems to be very good although I'm not in the target audience.

> First three episodes for the "For All Mankind" (scifi) are good so are the three episodes for "See". The "The Morning Show" seems to be very good although I'm not in the target audience.

Which is funny because many critics/reviewers have panned all the new shows. I've only watched TMS so far and found it intriguing.

It's funny, but I get a feeling that the shows are seamless match for Apple products (not in the bad way). It seems like like they are targeting premium users with their programming.

Critics/reviewers never have the same opinion I do. Not even close. I've learned to ignore them completely.

Reviews were so terrible, the shows themselves “subverted expectations”.

Watched 2 - 3 episodes of each this weekend to judge, and while there’s a lot of quality TV competing across pay channels lately, seems to me that Apple has nothing to be embarrassed about.

See is the only one that piques my interest. How would you rate it as a sci-fi on its own merit? (without bringing Apple vs. The World into it or giving away any spoilers)

It's quite decent. B+

What is the point of separating the macOS, iOS and tvOS apps into three? I think it unnecessarily complicates the thing. They are all mostly the same and only differ by the content they can play, which depends on third party support.

Case in point: once you have defined the three terms, you only use the striped one except at the very end to highlight one difference, which only depends on hardware.

> They are all mostly the same and only differ by the content they can play..

But content is a main idea of Apple TV?

It is, but if you define the Apple TV app as a sink that aggregates all content available on your platform, then it makes sense that it is different on each one. Since the way the app works is that it bounces you to the source.

To me there is the device, the app and the streaming service. The Channels is just a feature of the app. I agree that the naming is not ideal, but that is on par for course with Apple nowadays.

DRM levels?

This is actually the most plausible reason. Macs for example got the ability to play your purchased 4K content long after tvOS.

Did you not understand the article at all. It's satire.

Brilliantly done

nailed it.

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