Does any major TV manufacturer!?LG don't add major features to past models even if the hardware is capable and the features are just software...
There’s been no word yet as to whether it’ll even be 4K. I doubt it will be, Apple still will want sales of the box.Apple will want their app on as many platforms as possible if it promotes access to their services. They may hold back some features for the ATV 4K box (like Atmos) to lessen the blow to anyone having spent £180 on one. I suspect Webos apps are fairly portable across recent OLED years - so it all points to LG being restrictive.
If enough fuss is made they will change their minds - but they only respond to Vincent or Forbes. Forums and websites could make a fuss but they never do - too much to lose by alienating manufacturers.
LG don't add major features to past models even if the hardware is capable and the features are just software.
It is poor behavior from what you would expect to be a premium brand but such attitudes have long been present in the TV industry.
The Apple TV app with iTunes integration is exclusive to Samsung for the first year I believeThis is bizarre and makes no sense to me. This is not a ‘feature’ is just an app like Netflix, YouTube or NowTV, and the useless apps no one use. I can kind of understand not adding AirPlay 2, but not the Apple TV app.
Why does webOS have a content store and installable apps then? Are LG blocking Apple from releasing one, or have apple decided not to write one (which would be strange).
Is the OP sure that the person he spoke to has not confused Apple Airplay 2 and the Apple TV app? (they wouldn’t be the first).
The Apple TV app with iTunes integration is exclusive to Samsung for the first year I believe
To be honest, I get that it’s a pain that LG won’t backport the support to the 2018 models, but so what? An Apple TV is easy to use, 2nd hand 4K boxes can be had for under £100 now, and will arguably give a better picture than a native app.
One can argue that yes, LG should offer Airplay 2 support to the 2018 models, but fundamentally why should they? They’re a business, not a charity, and it won’t be as simple as ‘no, let’s shaft all our 2018 buyers just because we can’t be bothered’. If a manufacturer promises something and doesn’t deliver (like Samsung and HLG on 2016 models, or if LG didn’t end up bringing Alexa to the 2019s in the end) I totally get the anger at that. You buy the TV as is, anything else is a bonus.
Yes, the Apple TV app is what I’m talking about - which will be exclusive to Samsung for the first year. Coded by Apple.I’m not taking about Airplay 2. As I said, I get why they would include that.
What I’m taking about is the Apple TV app. There is no ‘backporting’, the app is coded and released by Apple not LG.
LG just allow them to publish their app in the LG content store.
It begs the question, what is the point in the LG content store and new apps can be published once a new model TV is released.
Maybe LG need to be more transparent and clear about this policy, because an ‘App Store’ implies an ongoing ability to buy/install apps.
Yes, the Apple TV app is what I’m talking about - which will be exclusive to Samsung for the first year. Coded by Apple.
Clarified last month with the LG UK Product Training manager that LG would not be seeing any support ‘for at least 6 months’ for the Apple TV app - ‘given Samsung’s exclusive deal with Apple’.Well that makes down to Apple and Samsung making a deal.
I’m still not convinced that the Apple TV app won’t be published in the content store for other pre-2019 TV’s.
LG’s lower tier customer service representatives do make a lot mistakes and have given me incorrect information in the past. In my (painful) experience some of them don’t have a clue about their products.
Would not surprise me if they confused Apple TV app and Apple Airplay 2, which will only be on 2019+ models.
Clarified last month with the LG UK Product Training manager that LG would not be seeing any support ‘for at least 6 months’ for the Apple TV app - ‘given Samsung’s exclusive deal with Apple’.
He hinted that the AirPlay 2 support would come with the Alexa update, estimated for July release.