Apple TV 4 could release this fall in 2015, according to an analyst. More details on the development can be found here.
If you've had even a passing interest in the world of Apple over the last few years then you'll be all too aware that rumors surrounding a possible Apple television simply refuse to go away. Things have been a little quieter than usual over the last few months, but Apple is still apparently working to drag the television industry into the 21st century.
If you have even the vaguest grasp on Australian culture, you'll know that the sport of cricket is popular across the nation. In fact, it's quite a massive deal to many Aussie sports fans, and so today's news that Apple TV now includes its very own Cricket Australia channel will surely appease cricket lovers down under.
When Apple announced HomeKit at WWDC it was almost forgotten about in the midst of all the other new additions that iOS received as part of the iOS 8 unveiling. Now that CES has come to a close though and the dust is beginning to settle on the huge number of announcements that took place there, HomeKit is once again starting to gain traction after some of the home automation companies showed off their wares.
The YouTube App for Apple TV has just been updated, bringing the client in line with variants found on other platforms. With a better streamlined interface to ease users' access to functions such as subscriptions and search, akin to the design found on other set-top box clients, the new YouTube app is now also ad-supported.
Apple TV has been steadily growing as one of Apple's hallmark products, even if the company never really intended it to be one. From a simple novelty to an actually usable content provision platform, Apple has grown its set top box steadily through the increase of newer and more channels available for streaming content from. Today, two new channels join the foray; Hallmark Cards' Feeln network, and FYI network from A&E, which are available right now should you own an Apple TV.
In adding a bunch of new features to its OS X and iOS software just lately, Apple also made time for the oft-forgotten Apple TV, which was pushed to software version 7.0 a short while ago. But one of the flagship features to be integrated with the wider Apple device family - peer-to-peer AirPlay - is limited only to the very latest revision of the Apple TV hardware released in 2013, which is a bit of a downer for those in ownership of what they believed was a compliant 3rd-gen Apple TV.
As well as rolling out the big iOS 8 update today, Apple has also unleashed a sizeable update to the Apple TV software. Given that the company's set-top runs on a variant of iOS, it makes a great deal of sense for these two releases to coincide, and after the purchase of Beats Electronics earlier on this year, an official Beats app for Apple TV is among the changes that have been pushed with this latest update. With Family Sharing and a plethora of other implementations, this is one update worth having, and below, we've got the full low-down.
Prompted into action by Google's release of the Chromecast dongle last year, Apple has been on something of a mission to bring more content to its famed set-top. Sure, we haven't seen any new hardware for a good couple of years now as far as Apple TV is concerned, but for those in ownership of the current-gen models, there are now dozens of channels and services to choose from. For sports fans, the introduction of NFL Now is likely to go down well, and if you don't happen to own the Cupertino company's little black box, you'll be pleased to learn that Amazon Fire TV and Yahoo Screen should also reap the benefits of NFL Now over the next few weeks.
Apple's current promotion that sees anyone who buys an Apple TV get a free $25 iTunes card is all well and good if you're in the process of picking one up, but you're out of luck if you already bought one. Or are you?
