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Say hi to the all-new AppleTV
Apple has announced a drastic overhaul for its AppleTV on yesterday’s (9 September) much-awaited autumn keynote.
The company may have abandoned the idea of releasing its own flat-screen television, but the set-top box’s fourth generation will bring a plethora of new functions to customers’ living rooms.
Still looking as innocuoustand un-flashy as ever, Apple’s micro-console has been built anew from the base up.
Saying goodbye to iOS, the all-new AppleTV will be running its own operating system, tvOS.
With a new operating system giving developers the opportunity to optimize and create apps specifically for the device, AppleTV will also come with its very own App Store.
‘There has been so much innovation in entertainment through iOS apps,’ Eddy Cue, senior vice president of Internet Services and Software, said.
‘We want to bring that same excitement to the television. Apps make the TV experience even more compelling for viewers and we think apps represent the future of TV.’
Siri has finally landed on AppleTV, too, in form of a new remote: simply press the button and tell the room – and your TV – what you want and it will search iTunes and apps like Netflix, Hulu and HBO, showing you every way to watch your choice.
Supposed to make the experience more intuitive and connected, the glass touch surface is highly sensitive, reacting small accurate movements just as well as big, sweeping ones.
A built-in accelerometer and gyroscope will come in handy when playing games on the TV, as they turn the remote into a gamepad – so it’s probably just a matter of time until developers turn AppleTV into much more than just a device to watch your favorite series from.
The all-new AppleTV will be available from the end of October, clocking in at $149 (€133, £98) for the 32GB and $199 (€177.70, £129.29) for the 64GB model; prices for countries outside the US have not yet been announced.
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Stefanie Gerdes
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