I’ve never used one, but I’m looking to get one for my parents as a gift. Personally, I’d go fire stick because I’ve had few issues and it seems simple enough, but they don’t have Prime so it doesn’t make a lot of sense.
They are set up on iPhones (a bit of struggle) and an iPad. They have little/no experience with smart TVs; currently just antenna TV and a chromecast from their computer (also a difficult explanation).
Would an Apple TV be a soft learning curve for them? Any other suggestions?
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I’d go ROKU for one simple reason, the remote. It’s so much easier for the elderly to hold, and feel the buttons.
Make sure to enable that feature which puts a border to the selected app for better visibility. I just forgot how to do that right now.
my grandma is illiterate and is able to watch youtube on it
Apple TV is excellent. I’m not sure how the latest one compares but my one has a remote which acts like a touchpad for you to scroll and select icons, and then you press the trackpad which is also a button to select the chosen icon.
If the latest iteration works this way, they may not get on with it, as I think older folks struggle with the basics of these new fangled things, even more so if they aren’t tech savvy.
I have Apple TV iPhone and Apple Watch as well My iPhone can be used as the remote for the Apple TV. I am able to use voice commands to turn on and off Apple TV. Apple TV support most screaming services been using it for about three years
Follows Apple’s MO of see a pic of what you want and click on it.
It would be a perfect gift. I own 4 of them.
I switched my parents from a Roku to an AppleTV. I thought it would be easy - they have Macs and iphones. It was not easy. There were many complaints like “The touch-pad is too sensitive.” “How many cables do we need? Do you want a picture of the cables?”
A lot of folks will still find it challenging. It’s a great product, and if you set it up they’ll probably be fine. Good luck!