Prime Video customers in the U.S. will soon be able to subscribe to Apple TV+ to enjoy award-winning and hit Apple Originals like The Morning Show, Slow Horses, Presumed Innocent, Severance, Silo, Hijack, and more directly via Prime Video. Additional territories to follow.
So, you can pay for Apple TV+, just like you always could, now through another app. Brilliant.
I’m hopeful that we’ll eventually be able to separate the app itself from the license to view certain content. Some apps are shit with good content, and some apps are great with insufficient content.
I’d love to be able to have a one-stop shop for browsing or searching for shows and movies that I have access to, whether it’s through my Netflix/Amazon/Disney/Hulu/Peacock/Apple/Paramount subscription or whatever. Amazon seems intent on trying to make it happen, but I’d personally prefer that the actual device (Apple TV, Chromecast or whatever it’s replacement is called, Roku, XBox, Samsung TV) to just have it on the home screen when you turn it on.
Apple TV has the “Up Next” feature which helps as the latest tv show episodes from all your apps are on the Home Screen. Even when you search it gives options from different apps. However, it’s painful for me on a mobile device to have so many apps installed, which take up a lot of space.
Yeah, Google does the same thing, but it launches the specific app in order to play from that screen (and not every app handles that gracefully).
What’s interesting about Amazon is that they play the actual content in the same app, even when licensed through a subscription with another service.
Apple TV handles it the same way. Netflix doesn’t work because they want you to open the app and scroll through multiple rows to resume watching.
Are you required to subscribe through Prime or can I add any subscription?