{"id":582296,"date":"2025-02-13T09:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T07:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=582296"},"modified":"2025-02-13T11:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T09:54:05","slug":"apple-tv-available-on-android-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/582296-apple-tv-available-on-android-devices.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple TV+ available on Android smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apple expanded the TV+ video service to Android phones for the first time, a move aimed at boosting its streaming subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, the TV+ app became\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.apple.atve.androidtv.appletv&amp;hl=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available<\/a>\u00a0via the Google Play Store as a free download. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The service, which launched in 2019, had previously been reserved for the company\u2019s own operating system and third-party TV platforms like Roku. Bloomberg News reported earlier that the app\u2019s launch was imminent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move marks the rare occasion when Apple is offering services on Google\u2019s Android, its biggest competitor in smartphone software. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Apple provides its Music service as an Android app, it typically tries to keep customers within the bounds of its own product ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking this step suggests that Apple is trying to boost the appeal of TV+ and challenge streaming services like Netflix and Disney+. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though the iPhone maker has had hits on the platform, such as\u00a0<em>Severance<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Ted Lasso<\/em>, it lags well behind the biggest platforms in viewers, according to industry estimates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple has never disclosed subscriber or revenue figures for TV+.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Launched at $4.99 per month, Apple TV+ now costs $9.99 (R124.99 in South Africa) monthly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloomberg News\u00a0first reported\u00a0last year that Apple was working on an Android app for TV+. A spokesperson for the Cupertino, California-based company declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the TV+ move, Apple will allow users to access its MLS Season Pass on the Android TV+ app. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/cz\/newsroom\/2022\/11\/apple-mls-announce-mls-season-pass-launches-february-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launched that service<\/a>, which lets fans watch Major League Soccer matches, in February 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple expanded the TV+ video service to Android phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":582299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[397,605,96408],"class_list":["post-582296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-android","tag-apple","tag-apple-tv-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582326,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582296\/revisions\/582326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}