Daniel Hruska Apple TV this year went through big changes – got its own tvOS operating system as well as its own App Store. As a device categorically completely different from other apple products, it applies to Apple TV application development specific rules.
Small starting size, resources only on demand
One thing is certain - the application placed in the App Store will not be more than 200 MB. The developers have to squeeze all the basic functionality and data into the 200MB limit, the train does not go beyond this. Now you might be thinking that many games take up to several GB of memory and 200 MB will not be enough for many applications.
Other parts of the application, the so-called tags, will be downloaded as soon as the user needs them. Apple TV assumes a constant high-speed Internet connection, so on-demand data is no obstacle. Individual tags can be 64 to 512 MB in size, with Apple allowing up to 20 GB of data to be hosted within the app.
However, in order not to quickly fill the memory of the Apple TV (it is not that much), a maximum of 20 GB of these 2 GB can be downloaded to the memory. This means that the application on the Apple TV will take up a maximum of 2,2 GB of memory (200 MB + 2 GB). Older tags (for example, the first rounds of the game) will be automatically removed and replaced with the necessary ones.
It is possible to store quite complex games and applications in 20 GB of data. Strangely, tvOS offers more in this regard than iOS, where an app can take up 2GB in the App Store and then request another 2GB (so 4GB in total). Only time will tell how developers can use these resources.
New driver support required
The application must be controllable using the supplied controller, the so-called Siri Remote, that is another rule, without which applications cannot be approved. Of course, there will be no problem with normal applications, it occurs with games that require more complex control. Developers of such games will have to figure out how to effectively use the new controller. In this way, Apple wants to ensure that the control works simply across all applications.
However, it is not specified anywhere exactly to what level such a game must be controllable by Apple's controller in order to pass the approval process. Perhaps it is enough to imagine an action first person game where you need to walk in all directions, shoot, jump, perform various actions. Either the developers crack this nut or they don't release the game on tvOS at all.
Yes, third-party controllers can be connected to Apple TV, but they are considered a secondary accessory. The question is whether more complex games, which may potentially be missing from the App Store, will fundamentally devalue the Apple TV. The simplified answer is rather no. Most Apple TV users probably won't be avid gamers who would buy it for titles like Halo, Call of Duty, GTA, etc. Such users already have these games on their computers or consoles.
Apple TV targets (at least for the time being) a different group of people who can get by with simpler games and most importantly - who want to watch their favorite shows, series and movies on TV. But who knows, for example, Apple is working on its game controller, which will allow you to control even more complex games, and Apple TV will become (in addition to television) also a game console.
Let's imagine a dorina with 4 members, where 3 of them play one game. The first player starts, he gets to some level where the beginning is not needed, but I need the middle block, so the first one is deleted. Then the next player starts, he needs a start. What now? The middle block is deleted, or only the first one is completed because the middle one is needed by another user (it is stored in the position). The second player stays in the first block. Then the first player comes and either their block is finished (and deletes the first player?) or they continue. Will it reach the last part of the game and then the next block will reach out and delete the middle one? Then the second player returns to play, but is still in the first block. Will be there? Then it gets to the middle part of the game and the first block of data is deleted. Well, then a third player comes to play. Well, it seems kind of complicated to me, we'll see. Just because I'm always online doesn't mean I always want to download something. And if my internet goes down or it goes slowly?
So will you read a book, take care of your children, wife or other hobbies? :)
Fuck you :-)
I love it when a new or upgraded Apple product comes out, how many sages and smart-liners swarm, predicting failure in the market, listing flaws and disadvantages without even having the product in hand. In a few weeks, Apple will announce record sales of the criticized product and overtake the competition...
But the sales don't say anything about the qualities, only that they can sell it, or that it's just a lesser evil. This is not to say that most people will not be satisfied, but most people are not very demanding and have minimal requirements. For example, I've been using iPhone for years and I'm not satisfied, unfortunately, it's a lesser evil than Android or WP. I speak for myself of course.
…..but sales don’t say anything about qualities, only that they can sell it….
How can Apple "sell" here without advertising aimed at the Czech Republic? They don't try to sell at all in the Czech Republic, they don't undercut themselves, they don't lower the price, but they still stand in lines at the shops.
..I've been using iPhone myself for years and I'm not satisfied, it's a lesser evil than Android or WP…
You just wrote that the iPhone is the best, that's why it sells like that, right?
On the one hand, Apple doesn't sell that much in our country (find device statistics in the Czech Republic) and most importantly, it is in a position where it doesn't have to push hard on every "farting" market. Look at who does all the advertising "for him", see also this server and many others, magazines, other companies that want to sell their product, and Apple is simply a good brand to establish (I vividly remember the awkward one from Komerční banka with by an attempt at wireless payments - other phones already had NFC, but they preferred to prepare a pilot with a monstrous cover for the iPhone in a shipment of 5000 pcs. I think because the iPhone. We know how it turned out.). Apple has a pretty good grasp of product placement everywhere, and this is also transferred to us (films, shows, sporting events, ...), which is a form of advertising. Furthermore, Apple is still a bit of a "level mark", although it is no longer what it used to be and the truth is that it never really was, but people are people and so they don't buy what is good, but perhaps what will support their social level (China I think it's pretty good on this one).
If we were to go by sales, the best is the Android device, which for many people it really is, and at the same time we probably know that most of the sold Androids are cheap shunts and people are just as excited.
The fact that I wrote that it is the lesser evil can really mean to someone that it is the best (and rightly so, I do not argue). However, it is not quite like that for me, because I personally consider the best to which I have the least reservations. But if I were to simplify it, yes, it is probably the best for me (and this is important), although I came to it as the lesser evil. But I am far from satisfied with him and I often try the competition to see if he can help me escape.
Jeez, that's bullshit. So, according to your own words, you've been using one of the most expensive phones on the market, the iPhone, for several years, but it's not the best phone, even if you think it has the least bugs compared to others. And you holy simplicity…
Did you read what I wrote correctly? Apparently not. I have recognized that it is the best phone for me as you see it, although I am not satisfied and I am less and less satisfied. But for now I'm sticking with it, it's partly the habit and the costs involved that contribute to it (and are no longer directly related to what kind of phone it is now), although they're not the most important thing for me, it just influences my decision. And yes, I admit (although it's not about the phone, but about other products) that I've been fooled sometimes, even if not by marketing. For example, every time I see a Macbook Pro 15 retina, I want to buy it, even though I already owned it and even though I tried my best, I wasn't satisfied. Fortunately, I resist, but the taste is there. So I repeat, yes, for me, the iPhone is the best choice in combination with habit (I hardly make changes and I don't feel like digging up what I've experienced), years of traveling together, other costs (accessories, apps). But if I were to purely evaluate the iPhone vs something else, it would be much worse against the iPhone.
So which phone is better than the iPhone when you wrote that both Android and WP are the greater evil? Blackberry? Hahaha
When you start communicating in a slightly more appropriate way, I'll be happy to discuss it with you, because discussion is one of the ways to get to know each other. I might find out I'm wrong. But on the level.
So what's a better phone than the iPhone, which you think sells because Apple "knows how to sell"? It doesn't exist, does it?
I see that Mr. Daniel Čada is exactly the "Desperado from the APPLE fairy tale", i.e. iOvce, with whom it is pointless to waste time!
Jobs was a genius in that he was able to create this community and in such a way that the community pays for its beliefs and APPLE brutally profits from it...
Jobs should receive a posthumous Nobel Prize for his marketing perpetuum mobile!!!
Well, it could be written about you again that you are the sheep of the competition. The very slander, etc. Weakness sir.
But note - I'm not promoting any competition (pls read what I'm writing), I'm just not blindly promoting everything that Apple presents - doesn't ATV 4G seem desperately backward to you?
And it is not possible to respond to Mr. Čada very correctly - please read his "dialogue" with Swenak...
I have an ATV 3 and I am completely satisfied with it. Maybe because I'm not one to waste time playing games and I don't think of it as a gaming console. I only know ATV 4 from keynotes, commercials and reviews, and by all accounts it's a lot more hyped than ATV 3. Especially since I can program my own apps for it!
Yes, and to be fair, we are not here on websites for children or for politicians. :-B
May I ask what MAC/PC are you using if the MBP Retina is not good enough for you?
Well, for me, as a mostly Windows user, the main problem with Retina was the Retina display. It's not possible to describe it here, it would take a long time, there are a few topics on macforum.cz where we dealt with it. It was about resolution, fonts, working on a remote desktop and a few other things. For 65 thousand I expected more (today perhaps these models with dedicated graphics cost around 75 thousand). I also tried 13″ and MBP2012 with basic display, but it didn't work. I now have some 14" HP with firepro graphics (I don't know the model, it's lying in the office) and at home I built something according to my ideas (again for a long time, there is a topic on the superforum :-) ). It's not perfect, I'd really prefer a "perfect" device, but it's more usable and less annoying to me. And somehow, I am constantly looking to see if someone will get rid of the MBP 2012 with a HiRes matte display, which seems to me to be the most reasonable for a 15.4″ and at the same time I do not have to deal with application support (I dealt with it, I think, in 2014 and at that time even some MAC applications were not supported retina).
Well, if you are addicted to Windows, it is a problem, but I also use virtualized Windows on MBP retina in my company and everything works without problems, but the virtualization had to be adjusted a little on the first day, otherwise it works 100% without problems, it will be 3 years.
The problem is not in virtualization, it doesn't fool anything either. The problem is many, from blurry fonts, anti-aliasing (a feature of Windows, I tried other font renderers, but without success - there are many articles about it on the net). Furthermore, for example, work via RDP on another PC on an external monitor, problems with the cursor, the size of the control elements, the problem of displaying fonts differently on the main display and on an external "non-retina" monitor, etc. This is not the Macbook's fault, but the result was not one that made me happy. But the Macbook also had defects, spots on the display (partially solved by the switch to Samsung), cracking of the back cover when worn, overheating during demanding graphics.
Mr. Skořápek, why don't you go cry somewhere else, the diarrhea that your simple mind produces is of course of no interest to anyone here.
"A different model for developing countries" but where...
Unfortunately yes = another type of remote control COMPLETELY without SIRI support – misfortune any objections?
Apple TV from Germany has siri. Our market will probably be without English SIRI.
It's great that you answered/confirmed my information yourself = mainly that you're babbling, aren't you?
I only read about other Siris (or for the Czech Republic without Siri) from reviews, while ATV 4 is not yet sold in the Czech Republic (as far as I know). Do you pls have a link where Apple confirms this or informs itself?
(I'm not saying it's not true, but I wouldn't want to deal with commenters' mere speculations)
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Apple TV from Germany is probably not a problem for anyone, and many users can certainly do without SIRI.
It also fascinates me how someone needs to write negatively on fan pages of a brand or product. What do you mean by that? Do you want to convince someone to sell their device after they have had many years of positive experience with it and there is no better one on the market? :D
Weakness sir.
I am not the operator or editor of this website, based on your self-presentation I doubt you have successfully completed at least high school. I don't know what you want to prove by insulting others and writing your misguided comments here on a page intended mainly for users or those interested in Apple products. I doubt you have any experience with IOS, OS X, etc...
Somehow I didn't catch the launch. I'm waiting for her like mercy. Do you have any info? Thanks.
What does age have to do with it? :D
And he can't even speak Czech :-)
If I write that one roll is bigger than the other, do you think that means that I am saying that the other roll is the biggest of all the rolls in the world? Oooooh, that's what I call a BRAIN!
You obviously haven't read (let alone written) an opinion if you consider a one-sentence message to be an opinion. :D
Well, it seems you're just an abusive troll who (for some strange reason?) enjoys posting comments on articles. And he doesn't argue with those.
Enjoy it, boy.
And boo-boo-boo! Watch out for the evil elf Applík!!!! Don't let him steal your tooth at night! ;-)
Buff! :D
So 3 Retinas is not a number. Just look at macforum.cz and around the world. Sure it was claimed, I got a panel from Samsung instead of LG (I specifically wanted it and since it was a known bug, it worked), which is a bit better, but it was just still there (photos on the forum). Cracking of the lower lid (probably better to write peeling) was also a feature, another model already had bottom clips. They're a mess, but it annoys people that they pay relatively much money compared to other brands and they solve the same problems. And I'm not talking about the problem with the protective type of retina displays, in fact, that's what I'm most afraid of right now, even though my laptop will never last more than a year (if I buy it myself), but if a normal person spends so much money, then he has 5 years or more and I would be pissed off, deal with it after the warranty.