A major rethinking of tvOS in 2022 could help shake loose the shackles of iOS.
For the fifteenth anniversary of the Apple TV, I took a look back at how the device has changed from the original 2007 model all the way to the latest Apple TV 4K and laid out what I want to see from Apple TV in 2022. Though that piece focused mainly on the hardware, it`s just as important to look at tvOS, the software that powers Apple TV, a decade and a half on.
With tvOS 15, Apple has seemingly refined itself into a bit of a corner with relatively little in the way of new features being added year-over-year at this point. The Apple TV software was spun out of iOS and, in the early years, served mainly to make popular iPhone and Mac experiences available on the big screen. That focus seemed to change in 2015 when, alongside the unveiling of the 4th-gen Apple TV, Apple CEO Tim Cook declared that `the future of TV is apps.` While getting an App Store for the first time, tvOS also got its own name, sugges...
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