“This has come up several times on the forums, but I've never written it up in a standard place, so here it is: There are only three ways to get run-time polymorphism in Swift. Well, three and a half.”
TV+ down for anyone else? I’m getting “there’s a problem loading this content” on my TV, and the TV app on macOS just bounces back to the menu if I try to play any TV+ content. Library content plays fine and the System Status page (https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/) says everything’s fine (because of course it does). Restarted devices. #appleTVplus#appleTV#tvOS
I hope #tvOS is going to get the new settings app at some point. It’s kind of a surprise when I need to look for updates under System instead of General.
I really want to get tappr.tv content running inside #RealityKit (think 3D UI dance editor). For that to happen, I either need CustomMaterial or next-gen #ShaderGraphMaterial.
(With ContinuityCamera, I can imagine all kinds of uses for RealityKit on #tvOS.)
Ultimately, this is me making peace with my code base for the next few years :-)
and yes i am still wildly passionately in love with #tailscale and need to find a handle for them in federated space. still like #zerotier! but tailscale on #tvOS is a killer app.
sidebar: #proxmox's kernel is spamming errors in the #E1000 driver code so i need to find a half-height 10Gbps ethernet adapter or two. sigh.
"On living room devices, the sidebar will also feature profiles, allowing households to quickly switch between users for better personalization in Up Next and content recommendations across the app."
What’s up with #tvOS apps screwing up their video players? Prime video is a mess to change languages: Menus are a few steps too deep, navigation is illogical, no anticipation on focus changes, etc. „Wow“ is beyond bad. And I just tried MagentaTV: They gave up altogether and do not even bother to supply language switching, even if the content supports that on other platforms. I have to use Airplay for Fargo!
JUST USE THE BUILT-IN VIDEOPLAYER! It can be done in a day and it’s VASTLY better.
I was going to wait to talk about this until I could actually release it, but it’s becoming unlikely that will happen.
A few months ago I built an #iOS and #tvOS app for watching #Owncast streams natively on your phone and tv. You could browse the directory, or add your own private servers that aren’t listed publicly. It would send you push notifications when your favorite streams went live and it all worked pretty well.
Apple has been unable to understand how the “rights” work in this case. I can’t get them to understand that people opt into the directory, and the Owncast project owns and runs the directory. Instead they see it as me “using content without rights” and “accessing a catalog without proper rights”. They asked me to provide the paperwork detailing the agreement I have with every Owncast server. Clearly that’s impossible. The number of servers that want to be public on the directory change every day, I couldn’t send them new documentation every day. I tried to explain that the directory is kind of like a search engine and the application is like a browser. A browser doesn’t have explicit rights to every webpage ever made, as that would be ridiculous. I also tried to compare it to a podcast client. A podcast client can play back any podcast without asking for permission, and there are tons of podcast directories.
They’ll approve the application if I don’t use the directory and don’t have any Owncast servers directly available from the application, however. But I’m not willing to do that as that kind of defeats the point of the convenience.
I contacted a handful of attorneys, and I was willing to fight this. I hoped if I could get an attorney to draft a document that explains, in legal terms, something that Apple’s legal team would understand it could be cleared up. But I haven’t been able to have a meaningful conversation with any of them, as none of them understand what I’m doing or aren’t interested in working with a non-corporate entity.
So I think this is dead, killed by Apple. I tried to build something cool for you all, as a side project, to make viewing Owncast streams more convenient. It’s just not going to happen and I feel bad about it.
I’ve been thinking about upgrading to 3rd gen #AppleTV 4K. I currently have 4th gen model (the one rebranded as HD). I know it will be better, but I have this feeling they will release even newer model the moment I buy the damn thing…🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️ #Apple#tvOS
I underestimated FaceTime on Apple TV with tvOS 17, and it's actually a pretty cool feature (9to5mac.com)
Apple last month announced tvOS 17 for Apple TV at WWDC 2023. And while the update comes with some cool...
This is a quietly big year for the Apple TV and tvOS (www.theverge.com)
FaceTime, a far better Control Center, and a remote finder.