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this video is sponsored by world of warships I usually love Apple products generally have an iPhone in my pocket most of the year I've got an Apple watch on I love my air pods I use my iPad every single day they're far from perfect and generally they have issues and I usually get over them but there's one Apple product that I refuse to use I hate the Apple TV and it might sound ridiculous but my reason is about to matter more than ever before so I should probably be more specific it's not the Apple TV itself the box is fine the UI is fine and my issue it's the stupid remote and I took out a few good reasons for it first I have lost this thing about three different times between couch cushions it is the perfect size to fall between said cushions and should you drop it the glass track right here is gonna make this almost 60 bucks to replace all of that aside it's not economic it feels weird in the hand I still have a hard time telling which ways up and down despite the menu button finally getting a ring around it there's slight TV controls it's minimalistic and a few buttons so I could probably do a whole video ranting on the remote but I'm gonna save you the rage and assume that like you get the point I I don't like it and switching away from Apple TV has made me move away from things I really like about the Apple TV and it hasn't been a big deal in the past I found ways to get around airplay and I can get my movies on movies anywhere but I'm losing a lot of the stuff that makes the Apple TV amazing and that's going to matter a lot more now before we continue I want to give a big thank you to this video sponsor world of warships if you guys been following gaming for a while then world of warships probably sounds familiar it's kind of a similar gameplay to World of Tanks or World of Warplanes except now you know it's ships and again it's totally free to play it's an online strategy game do it on a PC or a Mac done by the folks at wargaming it features millions 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and somehow get a little iTunes player here to play this stuff let's talk about this box this is the missing piece well here it is this is what it looks like and internally we call it I TV it's going to let you enjoy your media on your big-screen flat TV so the Apple TV in the iPhone and actually were born in the same year but the Apple TV actually came out in January of 2007 and it was a hobby as Steve Jobs said and that a hobby kind of made little sense in practice it was kind of like an iPod for your TV it was kind of a convoluted mess but that really didn't stop me from wanting one I really wanted one just to try it and I had a pretty awesome girlfriend at the time who is now my wife actually bought me the Apple TV is about 300 bucks when it came out I thought I was gonna use it all the time and if you go back to the early days of the YouTube channel it actually was the seventh video I ever uploaded on the John four Lakers channel was an unboxing of exact first-gen Apple TV over all I really like the Apple TV does everything I needed to do everything I wanted it to do but we've got one more thing actually it's one more hobby but over the years Apple continued to develop their hobby but there's still the knock on the first Apple TV was it was expensive and they also started facing mounting competition in this hobby space from companies like Roku that releasing really low price options and during the second gen which got totally redesigned it's thin its small and most importantly they dropped the price down to 99 bucks and also now you had a portal to get into the recently launched Netflix streaming service so the second and third gen Apple TVs looked pretty much the same the revised internal specs the next big change that we saw was from third to fourth gen where it got extra thick and it's still the same that we have right now with the Apple TV 4k it looks pretty much identical but the big one that the Apple TV 4th gen brought was the App Store so now you can actually download the apps that you wanted it also brought the iconic remote if you even want to call it that to play here so now Apple was allowing people to actually pick what apps they want to distribute from iTunes is still the preferred one for Apple but it gave choice to consumer to pick whatever they wanted to watch their shows or movies on you could now do it on the Apple TV so at the Apple TV right now I think has a few key advantages so first you get access to the iTunes library right out of the box and that's huge you've got first-run movies rentals you probably have the best way to access movies especially new releases out there of any platform airplay is huge as well being airplay your own videos from your phone build your screen mirroring outside of those sort of key benefits Apple TV doesn't really offer anything else it seems to me that Apple is very clearly at a fork in the road are they gonna go all-in on hardware or are they gonna sort of veer toward maybe they haven't gone before and focus on Apple TV as an experience more software based things are changing apples gotten events it's a few days as of this filming maybe already happened by the time you watch this and it's gonna be all about that streaming service they're gonna square up we're gonna put their guns up to Netflix they're gonna say we got original content too we want your eyes come watch your Apple shows but this is like the start of Apple Studios I'm not talking like the Beatles this is where like Apple starts making TV shows and movies that's clearly like a new Apple so I don't know if you guys remember your history of books but like any time you follow it in war history an invasion takes time and the invasion takes planning and Apple has been planning their invasion and their war with Netflix and Hulu and Amazon for a really long time they've got shows that are already wrapped seasons already done directors already hired for upcoming content scripts that are finalized they are ready for this and they're committed and they started preparing years ago for this announcement so I know what they're gonna do for pricing the rumor is that some stuff will be free some stuff of behind a paywall but at least all those folks with some sort of Apple products have the opportunity to see the content they're not requiring people necessarily go and download an app from another app store the idea is that's already going to mathematically show up with your next software update right on your home screen or just you know right on your phone the kind of the elephant in the room if you've ever read the Walter Isaacson biography on Steve Jobs evidently Jobs Friends of his life said he cracked TV he cracked how to do it and maybe this is job's vision that we're going to be seeing everybody thought it was gonna be a physical TV set but maybe some intuitive UI maybe that wasn't what he cracked all along maybe the jobs had some sort of foresight that the Netflix model was going to work maybe his cracking of TV was get in front of as many people as possible and I couldn't imagine a more unjabi in approach to something but if you could say anything about Steve Jobs he was definitely not conventional so if there's one thing I think tech giant's have learned since the iPhone is don't underestimate Apple when they're committed say what you will about Apple their war chest is rivaling some nations they've got money and they clearly seem committed to this so if I were Netflix if I were Reed Hastings I would be worried if I'm Amazon I would be worried it's only a certain amount of hours in a day and certain ton of eyeballs that are watching content if Apple comes with the next Game of Thrones the next must-have show it's going to snowball from there and they certainly seem confident that they've got the next must watch TV show or movie and if they hit that home run early the Apple TV service is going to be huge