> Apple tried with their unified streaming service UI on Apple TV, but several big players who hate their paying customers refused to implement it, so that’s a dud.
It’s not just that companies like Netflix didn’t implement it, but that it also shows you stuff you don’t have access to. I can’t count the number of times I get a notification about $sportsteam being in a close game, and clicking it, only for it to show me a link to subscribe to yet another “plus” service that likely will have the game blacked out anyway.
The “unified” Apple TV app has absolutely no idea what you actually are subscribed to, so it just shows you links to everything, and it’s a guessing game whether any of it will work. So it fails on both counts: it doesn’t show things you have, and it does show things you don’t have.
It’s not just that companies like Netflix didn’t implement it, but that it also shows you stuff you don’t have access to. I can’t count the number of times I get a notification about $sportsteam being in a close game, and clicking it, only for it to show me a link to subscribe to yet another “plus” service that likely will have the game blacked out anyway.
The “unified” Apple TV app has absolutely no idea what you actually are subscribed to, so it just shows you links to everything, and it’s a guessing game whether any of it will work. So it fails on both counts: it doesn’t show things you have, and it does show things you don’t have.