Apple today announced that its TV app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV will be expanding to seven additional countries by the end of the year.
The app will be released in Canada and Australia later this month, followed by France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, and the UK by the end of the year. The app has been available in the United States only until now.
Apple's TV app simplifies the television-watching experience, and helps users discover new TV shows and movies to watch. The app provides a unified experience for accessing TV shows and movies across multiple video apps.
The announcement was made by Apple's services chief Eddy Cue during the company's iPhone X event at the Steve Jobs Theater today.
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Netflix and NowTV are available, although the NowTV app is bugggy and basically an Apple TV 3 app ported and never updated.
Anyway hopefully this means they’ve worked with UK networks to get their apps on the Apple TV.
Pity no news on the News app. I still don’t get why there has to be any country restrictions for an app that accesses plenty of news sites and blogs on the open web that doesn’t have any borders.
Most service providers are cross-Scandinavian, so that makes no sense at all...
If anything, I'm surprised to see Canada included in the first international push of the TV app. I got accustomed to waiting a long time after Apple (like you said, Apple News still not released here).
[doublepost=1505260963][/doublepost] Apple should have partnered with TVPlayer to bring freeview through the internet and in to the Apple TV.
TVPlayer already have an app on the Apple TV and for other iOS devices, but having it within the TV app would be an advantage.