Let’s say your greatest buddy–we’ll name him Pietro–makes use of an Android cellphone. To every his personal, you say. The issue is, Pietro, who doesn’t personal a TV and watches reveals on his cellphone (like I stated, to every his personal) doesn’t subscribe to Apple TV+ as a result of there’s no Android app for that. This implies if you excitedly name Pietro after watching the most recent episode of Severance that dropped on Friday, you possibly can’t speak about it. As an alternative, you need to ask him how’s he doing, how the youngsters are, what he had for dinner, no matter. Ho hum.
However at this time is your (or Pietro’s) fortunate day. Apple has launched the Apple TV app on Android and it’s now obtainable on the Google Play retailer. It gives entry to all Apple TV+ content material, in addition to MLS Season Cross. A subscription is required for Apple TV+, which prices $9.99/£9.99 per 30 days; MLS Season Cross is a further subscription price, however doesn’t require an Apple TV+ subscription (study extra about MLS Season Cross). Apple TV+ additionally provides TV reveals and films obtainable to hire or purchase however The Verge reviews that you simply can not entry the shop from inside the Android app. Customers on Reddit say that beforehand bought reveals can’t be accessed, both.
The Verge additionally factors out that the Apple TV app for Android is optimized for foldable telephones, which Pietro likes to brag about (“Crease? That’s not a crease,” he likes to say). Google’s Dan Seifert posted that the app additionally has a themeable app icon, picture-in-picture help, in addition to offline downloads. So your Android-using buddy actually has no excuse for lacking out on among the best reveals of the yr and a bunch of different nice Apple TV+ content material. Until the dearth of casting help within the app is a dealbreaker. Then you definitely’re simply going to have to return to chatting in regards to the climate.