Adam Kos We've been hearing rumors about the next-generation Apple TV for a while now, but we don't know when the company plans to officially announce it. In addition, 9to5Mac magazine managed to obtain information that Apple is indeed working on a new controller, which could be part of the company's new smart box. The question remains whether an Apple TV as a piece of hardware still makes sense.
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Pavel Jelic Apple currently offers two models of its Apple TV. The basic model bears the epithet HD, offers 32GB of storage and costs CZK 4. Higher model 4K has an optional internal storage capacity. You pay CZK 32 for 5 GB, and CZK 190 for 64 GB. With us, all variants are distributed with the driver "Apple TV Remote". The funny thing is that this article deals with its possible replacement, and Apple is giving us a hard time about it. When you look at the Apple Online store Store, has a text error in the driver. He calls it as Apple tv Remote.
A new generation Apple TV with a more powerful chip
9to5Mac magazine's sources confirmed to him that the current driver is labeled B439, but the one being developed is codenamed B519. In supported countries, it is offered with the presence of the voice assistant Siri. Even so, it can be seen at first glance that the code is completely different from the current one, so it could be a completely different controller model. The current one is also quite controversial, as many users criticize its glass part.
Last week in addition server MacRumors discovered that Apple has removed mentions of the name “Siri Remote” from the beta version tvOS 14.5, which is now called Apple TV Remote, i.e. the same as the one supplied in the country. However, this name was also used in other markets where the Siri voice assistant was not present in the local language, and will now be the standard for all Apple TV variants. This could also mean the harbinger of a new model not only of the television, but also of the controller.
Already last August Bloomberg reported that Apple is working on a new Apple TV with a newer chip and an updated remote that will even work with the Find app. The agency then tried to confirm its claim i in December, when it stated that a new Apple TV with an updated driver would arrive in 2021. However 9to5Mac found the codes with links to the new model already in tvOS 13, which referred to a more powerful processor based on the arm64e architecture, which at the time could have been an A12 chip or later. So there has been speculation about the news for a really long time.
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Driver as a separate accessory?
The current Apple TV series was introduced back in 2017 and would certainly deserve an update. In addition, many expected her performance at this year's spring event. But if the company is really working on it, the situation with a possible spectacular spring presentation, where we could theoretically wait for it, became more complicated with the announcement of the WWDC21 date. In the end, it may even turn out that there will be no spring presentation of new products. Of course, this does not prevent Apple from releasing news only in the form of a press release.
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Vratislav Holub But does anyone really need a new generation of Apple TV? Modern smart TVs already have the Apple TV+ service, which is probably what we are talking about Apple most, they offer, as well as the AirPlay function. So Apple TV makes sense if you want to turn your dumb TV into a smart one and if you want to play Apple games on it Arcade. And that is perhaps the impulse to add a bit of power to the Apple TV and perhaps even pack its own game controller with it. If not, the company could also offer it separately. In her Apple Online Store after all, it offers a wireless game controller SteelSeries Nimbus +, which, apart from Apple TV, you can also use on the company's other platforms.
So if Apple doesn't update the entire series and if the platform developers will tvOS ignore the way they are doing now, this hardware company has no bright future. At least in the Czech Republic, where the speaker is not officially available HomePod however, this "television" still has a possible use in the form of a smart home center. But it is true that since it can also be an iPad, few people have this device just because of this one will acquire the function.
