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• Apple’s product events have become increasingly important as the company has been forced to navigate slowing iPhone sales.
• This year’s September keynote, on Tuesday, featured a trio of new iPhones, a new iPad, an updated Apple Watch, and a shockingly low price tag of $5 a month for Apple TV Plus.
• The pricing announcement for Apple TV Plus sent shares of rivals Netflix, Disney, and Roku lower.
• Here’s what Wall Street analysts are saying about Apple’s streaming service, and what it could mean for the company’s future.
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Apple’s September keynote shed more light on the company’s plan to jump into the streaming wars.

While the event on Tuesday revealed a trio of new iPhones, a new iPad, and an updated Apple Watch, perhaps the most significant announcement was the pricing of its upcoming streaming service.

Apple TV Plus will cost $5 a month, undercutting competitors such as Netflix and Hulu and upcoming offerings from Disney, AT&T, and Comcast. Apple also said customers who purchase a new Mac, iPhone, or Apple TV would receive a free year of the service.

The news sent shares of Netflix, Disney, and Roku sliding, with Apple’s pricing seen as a clear challenge to the future of other streaming competitors.

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Wall Street analysts have spent months speculating how Apple TV Plus would fit into the tech juggernaut’s larger hardware-driven business. With the highly anticipated reveal of its pricing and the announcement that new customers will get one year free with a device purchase, analysts are forming a more definitive picture of Apple’s content strategy.

Here’s what Wall Street’s top analysts are saying about Apple’s streaming ambitions, and what it could mean for the future of the company.

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“The key highlight from the Apple Event on 9/10 is more aggressive (lower) pricing on AppleTV+ than we previously expected,” Bernie McTernan, an analyst at Rosenblatt Securities, said in a note to clients on Wednesday.

He continued: “We believe Apple is positioning AppleTV+ as a tool in subscriber acquisition to its ecosystem as opposed to another source of high margin service revenue.”

Wedbush: “The pricing of Apple’s streaming TV service at $4.99 per month is a ‘show stopper.'”

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Price target: $245

Rating: Outperform

“The pricing of Apple’s streaming TV service at $4.99 per month is a ‘show stopper’ and a major shot across the bow at the likes of Netflix and Disney among others,” the Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives said in a research note to clients on Wednesday.

Ives added: “In our opinion with an installed base of 900 million active iPhones worldwide we believe Cook & Co. have an opportunity to gain 100 million consumers on the streaming front in…

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/wall-street-analyst-commentary-apple-keynote-event-tv-plus-reveal-2019-9-1028516773

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No iPhone or iPad behind doesn’t mean you can’t still AirPlay content to your Apple TV

It isn’t inconceivable that you own both an Android phone or tablet and an Apple TV. Sure, we’re fans of Chromecast in these parts, but the Apple TV still has a lot to offer, especially if you’re heavily involved in the iTunes content ecosystem.

One party piece that the Apple TV offers to iPhone and iPad owners is AirPlay. Wirelessly streaming music and video, mirroring the display on your iOS device or Mac, it’s a tremendously handy thing to have. But just because you’ve got an Android phone or tablet doesn’t mean you can’t join in with some of the AirPlay action. Head on past the break to see a couple of ways to AirPlay your locally stored music and video from your Android device to your Apple TV.

We’ve covered DoubleTwist many times before, including as a pretty slick method of getting your iTunes music library onto your Android device. But it can also be used to AirPlay music you’ve got stored on your phone or tablet to your Apple TV – or a set of AirPlay and Wifi enabled speakers for that matter. The basic app doesn’t have the functionality built in, you need the AirSync plug in to do it.

AirSync is the same thing you use to wirelessly sync your music from your iTunes library to your Android device. Built into it is AirTwist, which is what DoubleTwist uses to send your music to your Apple TV. Once you enable it in the main DoubleTwist settings menu putting it to work is extremely easy.

All you need to ensure is that your Apple TV is turned on and connected to the same Wifi network as your Android device. If that’s all OK, with AirTwist enabled you’ll see a Wifi symbol above the music controls in the Now Playing view for music, and to the right for video. Tapping on that will give you the option to select your Apple TV and presto!

DoubleTwist mimics perfectly Apple’s own AirPlay for music, in so much as it lets you continue to browse through other apps on the Apple TV while the track keeps playing in the background. You also get all track/album information and album art presented, too.

So, dropping a little bit of money on DoubleTwist is one of, if not the best way to AirPlay your music and video from your Android phone or tablet to your Apple TV.

• Download: DoubleTwist Music Player (Free)
• Download: AirSync ($4.99)

Using Allcast

There is another popular way to do this, too. Clockworkmod’s Allcast is a newer app than DoubleTwist, but it will do the same job. Again, so long as your Apple TV is on the same Wifi network as your Android device, Allcast will do the rest.

You first choose your preferred streaming device, the specific Apple TV – or in Allcast’s case, other devices – you wish to broadcast to. From there all you need to…

https://www.androidcentral.com/how-airplay-music-and-video-android-your-apple-tv

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Apple officially unveiled its long-awaited streaming service today, Apple TV Plus. Along with Apple giving Apple TV a total revamp in order to integrate Hulu, Amazon Prime, and other streaming subscriptions directly onto the app, Apple TV Plus will include original programming, which the company began outsourcing more than a year in prior to the event.

Apple has an impressive slate of upcoming original projects, ranging from animated musical comedies to paranormal thrillers. Here’s a look at the first slate of original programming exclusively coming to Apple TV Plus this fall:

Series

Amazing Stories

A science-fiction-fantasy-horror anthology series based on the Steven Spielberg-helmed 1985 anthology of the same name. Spielberg will return to executive produce alongside Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, Daryl Frank, and Justin Falvey. Kitsis and Horowitz are set to write as well. Apple ordered a 10-episode first season of Amazing Stories.

“[We are] resurrecting this 93-year-old brand and offering to multigenerational audiences a whole new batch,” said Spielberg.

Are You Sleeping

A drama series focusing on America’s obsession with true crime podcasts and the possible consequences of said obsession, Are You Sleeping stars Octavia Spencer as an investigative journalist turned true-crime podcast host. Aaron Paul plays a serial killer, with Lizzy Caplan playing twin sisters whose parents were brutally murdered.

Calls

Calls is an experimental French series that will tell stories through real-life audio and very few visuals. Very French.

Central Park

A musical animated comedy from Bob’s Burgers creator Loren Bouchard, Central Park will feature a family of caretakers who live and work in New York’s iconic park and end up saving it — and the world. Frozen star Josh Gad, who also serves as a producer the show, Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton), Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Kristen Bell (The Good Place), Stanley Tucci (The Hunger Games), Daveed Diggs (Hamilton), and Kathryn Hahn (Bad Moms) will headline the voice cast.

Defending Jacob

Defending Jacob is a crime series about a father dealing with his 14-year-old son’s murder charges. It will star Chris Evans (Captain America) and Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey) as Jacob’s parents and Jaeden Martell (It) as Jacob.

Dickinson

A coming-of-age comedy about the life of Emily Dickinson, Dickinson stars Hailee Steinfeld (Bumblebee) as the 19th-century poet. Dickinson will have half-hour episodes. Also joining the cast are Jane Krakowski (30 Rock) as Emily Dickinson’s mother and Toby Huss (King of the Hill) as her father.

For All Mankind

A science-fiction series that centers around the big what-if of “what if we continued the space race,” For All Mankind stars Joel Kinnaman (House of Cards) and Michael Dorman (Patriot), along with Shantel VanSanten (One Tree Hill) and Wrenn Schmidt (Boardwalk Empire).

Foundation

Based on Isaac Asimov’s science-fiction saga of the same name, the Foundation television series will explore the thousand year story of the Foundation, a civilization based on the psychohistory philosophies of Hari Seldon.

Helpsters

Two shows from the Sesame Workshop will find a home on the Apple Streaming Service, one live-action and one animated. The live-action show is called Helpsters and will star puppets teaching preschoolers how to code….

https://www.polygon.com/2019/3/25/18277261/apple-tv-plus-streaming-shows-movies

The Holiday Season is just over and many of us have come into some pretty great gifts during this time. The 4th Generation Apple TV is a great gift to have come across. The newest version offers a 32 or 64 GB hard drive that can be filled with popular apps like HBO GO, Netflix, Hulu and so on. And this time around, owners can download a bunch of apps like the addictive Crossy Road from the App Store. But what else can you do with your brand new device? Take a look at our nice list of Apple TV tips and tricks.

12 Advanced tips for your Apple TV 4

1. Siri’s advanced features

The highlight of the new Apple TV is the Siri voice comprehension feature built into the new Siri Remote. Siri can search for movies, open apps and even check the weather all by using only the sound of your voice. This feature is what truly sets the new Apple TV apart from its competition and past iterations, simplifying the most frustrating part of the streaming TV box ecosystem: navigation. Looking for an action movie? Instead of scrolling to the categories option, you can simply ask Siri to show you some action movies. 

Searching is a breeze (well, most of the time) and downloading apps is easy,  but some of her advanced commands are even more impressive. When watching a movie, you can ask “what did he/she just say?” and Siri will rewind a movie or show 15 seconds and temporarily turn on closed captions. You can also enable closed-captions, fast forwards, rewind, and much more just by speaking. 

At any time, you can also ask her the score for a current sports game, whose the director of a movie, or to launch an app, which is obviously pretty convenient. While voice commands may have their drawbacks, particularly when identifying unique spellings or similar sounding words, using Siri is still, probably the fastest way to navigate to most things in the Apple TV interface. Experiment and see what works, you’ll be pleasantly surprised as to what she can accomplish.

2. Move apps around the Home Screen

When you begin downloading and adding apps to your Apple TV home screen, you can later rearrange the order in which these apps are laid out. Again, this action will be very similar to what you would do on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod. All you need to do is tap and hold the Siri Remote touchpad on the app that you would like to move. This will place it into “wiggle mode”. Once in wiggle mode, you can move the app wherever you need.

When you are happy with the new placement, click the trackpad once, and the app will pop into its new location.

3. Deleting…

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2016/01/new-apple-tv-tips-and-tricks.html

Aerial is a Mac screensaver based on the new Apple TV screensaver that displays the Aerial movies Apple shot over New York, San Francisco, Hawaii, China, etc. Starting with version 1.6, this also includes the new undersea videos available in tvOS 13 ! See here for a complete list of available videos.

Aerial is completely open source, so feel free to contribute to its development.

Windows user? Try OrangeJedi/Aerial Linux user? Try graysky2/xscreensaver-aerial

Aerial was started in 2015 by John Coates (Twitter, Email)

Starting with version 1.4, Aerial is maintained by Guillaume Louel (Twitter). If you are looking to support the development of Aerial, feel free to donate using the following button .

You can see a list of contributors here.

Installation

Please note : Starting with Catalina, Aerial will only notify you of new versions, but won’t be able to automatically update itself. This is a limitation of macOS Catalina.

Installation instructions (latest versions require macOS 10.12 or above) :

1. Quit System Preferences.
2. Download the latest release of Aerial.saver.zip. Alternatively, you can find the latest beta here.
3. Unzip the downloaded file (if you use Safari, it should already be done for you).
4. Double-click Aerial.saver; it will open in System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver and ask you if you want to install for all users or for your user only. Be aware that installing for all users will require a password at install and each subsequent update, including auto-updates.

Need more information on install, setup, or uninstall ? Or want to install via homebrew ? Check our extended instructions here. Curious about auto-updates ? Have a look here.

What’s new in Aerial 1.9.0 (May 25, 2020)?

• Weather ! Aerial can now display current conditions for a location of your choice using Yahoo! Weather’s API.

This feature can be enabled and configured inside the Info tab.

You can either manually specify a location, or use your mac’s location services to provide Aerial with your most recent location when it starts. To preserve your privacy, should you wish to use location services, Aerial will only provide your location with an approximate 1km margin of error.

• Graphical battery indicator. The old text battery indicator was replaced with a nicer graphical one :

This version also includes several extra refinements such as adding the ability to override the 12/24 hour format for the clock, and also includes Italian translation thanks to @marguglio.

You can find more about version changes here.

Compatibility

Aerial is written in Swift, which…

https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial

The Altice One app is available on Apple TV today.
Photo: Altice USA

The nation’s sixth-largest cable TV provider announced Wednesday the addition of an Apple TV app to its streaming service beating Roku to the punch in the competitive streaming video market.

Altice USA provides broadband and pay television in 21 states to some 3.3 million subscribers through its Optimum and Suddenlink brands.

The deal with Apple comes as more and more Americans cut their cable TV cords in favor of streaming services.

Analysts predict the number of TV viewers ending their cable services will triple by 2023 to 76 million.

Like other longtime cable providers, Altice has pivoted toward streaming as subscribers of traditional pay TV have declined.

The Altice One app launched on Apple TV Wednesday. With the app comes live TV streaming, movies, shows On Demand and Cloud DVR Plus options.

New and existing Alice One customers can rent an Apple TV 4K as part of a monthly subscription plan.

Apple TV owners can get the Altice One app free for three months and pay $4.99 per month at the end of the free trial. Altice customers can get Apple TV+ free for one year.

https://www.cultofmac.com/687477/altice-one-apple-tv-streaming/