by So let’s talk about tvOS and Apple TV. Last fall we introduce the next generation of Apple TV and for the first time developers had a modern platform like iOS to develop for in the living room.
We said the future of TV’s apps and the response to Apple TV has been incredible here is what Chris Albrecht the CEO stars had to say
“tvOS has allowed stars to create an experience on Apple TV unlike anything we’ve done before and our subscribers are loving it”
here’s what the CEO of BoomBit a very popular iOS game developer had to say
“we easily extended our iOS game experience to the living room – something that is incredibly difficult to do on traditional consoles”
Our last generation Apple TV had 80 video channels and thanks to many of you we now have over 1300 video channels and we have over 6000 native apps in just seven months and I’ve got some new apps to tell you about
More Stations and Channels For Apple TV
First sling which offers a great selection of live cable channels is coming to Apple TV today. Fox sports go I’m a huge sports fan four sport games all at the same time on one screen coming this summer to Apple TV.
Molotov a revolutionary new TV service in France with over 100 live channels, video on demand exclusively on iOS and Apple TV coming next month.
Great sports games like NBA 2K, adventure games like mine craft story mode and sketch party use your iPhone or iPad to draw and then you sit around the TV to guess it’s a lot of fun do this with your group of friends.
Apple TV remote App
Now we got great updates to tell you about for tvOS and let me start with the Apple TV remote app. Apple TV comes with incredible Siri remote, it uses touch for navigation, Siri to tell it what you want to watch and motion to play games but a lot of our customers have told us that they would love an app on their iPhone that had all the same capabilities and so were making a new version of the remote app.
This is what it looks like it’s got a beautiful now playing screen with playback controls but most importantly all the features of the Siri remote. You have touch for navigation, Siri to give it commands and uses the accelerometer and gyroscope to play games. Of course you can enter text with the keyboard.
Next let’s talk about Siri. Siri changes the way we interact with our television because now we just tell it what we want to watch and were making it even better because now you can search movies by topics.
Now my daughter is actually going to high school this fall and I remember back when I went to high school, been a while, there’s some great movies but I’d love to watch with her and now Siri makes this really easy because I can just say high school comedies from the 80s and there are some of my favorites I have actually watched them all.
Let’s take a look at Ferris Bueller’s Day off and with just one tap we can start watching. Now Siri actually searches over 650,000 movies and TV shows now but what about YouTube?
Well that’s easy to do because now you just ask Siri “Search YouTube for Steph Curry’s three-pointers” Siri launches YouTube and shows you the results but a big part of your TV experience is live channels
We got some great channels on Apple TV like ABC, CBS, FX a lot more than give you wide channels but to start watching you gotta find the app you launch it and then you gotta find the channel. We got a great new feature called live tuning and all you have to do is say “watch ESPN 2” and you’re taken straight to the action.
This is already working with a lot of great channels and were making wide tuning available on both your iPad and Apple TV as well.
Single Sign On
One problem with this is let’s be honest, when you go in and you watch a video channel app for the first time you get something like this and you gotta go find a browser, authenticate with a code and then authenticate your TV provider. Well we are going to make this change a little bit but it’s worst because you got to do it for each and every app and now to make it all go away with a feature we call single sign.
Sign in once on your Apple you get access to all of your network apps and we make it even better, a page on the app store will show you all of the apps that you now have access to and of course for bringing the IOS as well.
Apple TV Dark Mode
In addition to single sign I have some other great updates. Apple TV looks beautiful their times were you wish it was darker because you are in a home theater or dark room and now that’s really easy as you can just switch to dark.
We want to make it even easier for customers to get your apps and so just like when you download an app on your iPhone it automatically downloads to your Apple TV and now automatically downloads to your Apple TV and the this is really great,
Im going to show so I get the major-league baseball app on my iPhone you do nothing and there it is right on your Apple TV. Now there has never been a better time for all of you to build apps for the big screen we got some great new features for you as well
Replay Kit For AppleTV
First of all replay kit where you can live broadcast your gameplay or save the video to share it later.
PhotoKit For Apple TV
Photokit gives you access to your complete iCloud photo library, all the videos all the photos
HomeKit
Where you can create apps to control all the devices in your own at home
and that’s just some of the many features we got things like support for four game controllers, multiplayer game sessions and a lot more
That is a quick update to the tvOS a new Apple TV remote app, great Siri enhancements with topic search, YouTube and live tuning, obviously single sign on so now you get access to all your network apps and great tools for developers
All of you will get a developer preview today. I can’t wait to see all of the apps you start building and our customers will get it this fall and that is tvOS
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