How Apple Is Preventing the Apple TV From Becoming a Console Rival (redbull.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 4, 2015 @04:10AM from the candy-crush-on-a-60"-television dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Apple's new set top box is on sale now, and has launched with several high profile games in the new tvOS App Store, including Guitar Hero Live and PS4 hit Transistor. However, as one writer points out, the Apple TV is still not an adequate console replacement, and it's not because of the graphics. Instead, several software issues and restrictions issued by Apple itself prevent developers from creating blockbuster exclusives for the platform, including the requirement that all games be playable using the bundled remote, lack of support for four players, and the 200MB initial app download limit. If these remain in place, can the Apple TV become a viable games platform, where the Ouya and PlayStation TV have failed before?

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Apple Doesn't do What? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-04 04:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Historically all the crap about Apple "not being able to do xxxxx" or "being computers for stupid people" was false. That's no longer true. The current people in charge at Apple have proven repeatedly that they are now making hardware and software designed specifically for idiots. Great thing I read a while back (I think around the release of Lion, AKA Apple Vista): "The new Apple... Computers for Morons... By Morons..."
This idiocy with limiting the Apple TV out of the box this way is just another symptom of the rot at the core.