“Apple’s introduction of a dedicated ‘tvOS’ platform for the fourth generation of its Apple TV has led to an explosion in the number of apps being developed for the set-top box smart device,” John Archer writes for Forbes. “There’s no doubt that it presents Apple TV users with significant challenges when it comes to browsing all the Apple TV apps out there. So it’s good to discover that Apple has started to roll out a new feature that should make it much easier to sort the wheat from the chaff in the Apple TV app world.”
“That new feature is web previews,” Archer writes.
“Admittedly it doesn’t sound very exciting when you just state it like that,” Archer writes, “but what it means is that people in the market for a new Apple TV app or two can now explore Apple TV’s app world via iTunes on their laptop or desktop computers rather than having to go through the rigmarole of firing up their Apple TV box, switching on their televisions, and trying to wrestle with an Apple TV interface that’s far less useful for app browsing than a computer screen.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Now, just let us get/buy Apple TV apps via our iPhones, iPads, Macs, and iPod touches that are simply there on our Apple TV(s) the next time we use them. Oh, and give us the ability organize our Apple TV apps via our our iPhones, iPads, Macs, and iPod touches, the same way we organize our Apple Watch apps.