…hasn’t been into my life sooner.

Being an Apple sheep since iPhone 3G, I can’t believe I have only now discovered AppleTV.

If I had used it sooner, I could have saved at least 200 days worth of life navigating through Android TV lag.

My top 3 Pros/Cons in the first week of AppleTV 4k:

Pros:

  1. Seamless experience of scrolling through different platforms. No lag. Gave new life to my 3 year old 65 inch Sony 4K TV.
  2. Picture is crisper compared to Android. Visually, this is what I’ve experienced. I don’t know if it’s got to do with their processing or it’s just a placebo?
  3. No more shi*ty remote that breaks easily or goes missing. Can use my iPhone too. Go ahead and destroy/hide the TV remote for the 10th time, kids…Jokes on you!!

Cons:

  1. I did not buy it sooner
  2. Apple ads failed to convince me to buy it sooner.
  3. Minor depression from the realisation fact that I lost ~200 days of life from AndroidTV lag

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Do not make the same mistake as me. Do yourself a favour and get an AppleTV.

  • WiWiJustus@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    this post could literally be me.

    I’ve had an amazon fire tv stick for years, and kept buying a new one on sale because they all started to getr slow and laggy quickly.

    2 weeks ago i bought a second hand apple tv HD for 35 bucks and despite its age its still wayyy faster than a new fire tv stick.

    lets not even start to mention how good it is combined with an iphone and/or home pod

  • ABadPhotoshop@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    It’s by far the best tv experience. I travel everywhere with mine - just completely bypass all inferior experiences.

  • tusi2@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I started the process of upgrading from a Roku TV by purchasing an Apple TV to give me more time to wait for TVs to go on sale and came to a similar conclusion.

    Now I look at smart TVs as simply TVs again.

  • ekudog88@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    The sheep thing is so insulting. Just acknowledge it’s best. Anything outside of that is a stubborn resistance for no reason.

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    10 months ago

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  • JoyousGamer@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Well I mean sounds like you didn’t have a very good AndroidTV as there isn’t lag if you have a good device.

    The difference is for Apple OS its only ever on flagship products where as Android will end up on anything since its essentially open source.

    We use Apple TV in our house ever since they finally gave a better remote option though.

  • Serialtoon@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    These types of posts remind me of people who buy $200 Windows PCs and then many years later buy a $2000 MacBook and proceed to compare them as equals. I love my AppleTVs too, but to say that AndroidTV is garbage when it came built into the TV is a bad approach.

  • Loqueyotediga@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I have an Apple TV and is great…but better image and lag is not an Android problem, is a hardware problem. You can’t go smoothly on a crappy hardware… But besides Nvidia shield there is no other alternative in quality terms against Apple TV.