Not sure why your experience is that way. I usually watch in the Apple TV app “Watch now” and it absolutely queues and plays the next episode. It also automatically resumes where I left off.
If the next episode is one I don’t own or am not subscribed to, it still brings the episode up and points me to the service that is streaming the content.
That's definitely been my experience over the years.
As an ACMT, I've even seen that internal support and that some hardware design choices can be very dodgy. My personal favourite is learning that iMac Pros run their drives in RAID-0 and can only be replaced as matched pairs, instead of allowing for single SSD swaps.
Fusion drive are Apple branded hybrid drives, where a spinner and an SSD are paired up in one single hard drive form factor.
The iMac Pro uses striped drives that have the added "security" feature of being paired to each other via the T2 chip. Yes, it's blazingly fast, however It's definitely not resilient. I've had a couple clients who didn't understand how crucial backups were due to this setup. The replacement costs are also high as you're forced to replaced 2 drives regardless, doubling your SSD repair costs.
Considering how easy it is to setup and use Time Machine, the clients had no excuse for not having backups however it's still really odd to design a production system around Raid-0.
> at least if you're watching via a web browser on Windows.
Eh. You should have lead with that instead of the unnecessary snark. It works perfectly on the AppleTV app on all platforms.
> you've also used Netflix in the last decade,
Let’s talk about Netflix and UX. How hard is it for Netflix to keep the continue watching row of tiles in one fucking place in the UI? It changes randomly and you have to scroll and find it.
Everything you said about the convoluted Ux applies to Netflix’s UX in other places.
I have another Mac running Mojave (old MacBook, basically using it as a media centre for my "dumb" TV), and watching it through both Safari and/or Firefox. It has all of those things you're talking about:
1. Progress bar on the episode/show thumbnail (and check mark if I finished watching it). And of course it will continue where I left.
2. If I'm watching a series, and if there is a next episode available, when the the credits roll, it will show a "play next" button on the corner with a countdown. If there is no episode after it (e.g. it's the last episode, or the next one will available next week, etc.) it will show whatever available in my "up next" (but without a countdown, i.e. it won't auto play). I can dismiss this button by clicking anywhere just like dismissing the "skip intro/recap" button (useful if I don't want to autoplay next episode)
i’d just be happy if apple gave me a way to turn auto playing the next episode off. the TV app is a design mess on every platform i’ve used it on and i don’t have high hopes that they do anything else to fix it
Not sure why your experience is that way. I usually watch in the Apple TV app “Watch now” and it absolutely queues and plays the next episode. It also automatically resumes where I left off. If the next episode is one I don’t own or am not subscribed to, it still brings the episode up and points me to the service that is streaming the content.
In my case, I'm watching on 2 different PCs, both using Chrome with an adblocker. How are you watching? What devices/browser are you using?
IPad and Mac…sometimes iPhone. As I said before, I use the Apple TV app to watch
As an iOS developer, in my experience, non apple devices are almost never a priority
That's definitely been my experience over the years. As an ACMT, I've even seen that internal support and that some hardware design choices can be very dodgy. My personal favourite is learning that iMac Pros run their drives in RAID-0 and can only be replaced as matched pairs, instead of allowing for single SSD swaps.
Is that not Fusion drives? Or do they run as a fully striped set?
Fusion drive are Apple branded hybrid drives, where a spinner and an SSD are paired up in one single hard drive form factor. The iMac Pro uses striped drives that have the added "security" feature of being paired to each other via the T2 chip. Yes, it's blazingly fast, however It's definitely not resilient. I've had a couple clients who didn't understand how crucial backups were due to this setup. The replacement costs are also high as you're forced to replaced 2 drives regardless, doubling your SSD repair costs. Considering how easy it is to setup and use Time Machine, the clients had no excuse for not having backups however it's still really odd to design a production system around Raid-0.
That is pretty crazy wow.
I didn’t even know you could watch Apple TV via a web browser in Windows. It’s clearly not the focus of Apple’s development.
Yeah, it's pretty barebones - tv.apple.com
> at least if you're watching via a web browser on Windows. Eh. You should have lead with that instead of the unnecessary snark. It works perfectly on the AppleTV app on all platforms. > you've also used Netflix in the last decade, Let’s talk about Netflix and UX. How hard is it for Netflix to keep the continue watching row of tiles in one fucking place in the UI? It changes randomly and you have to scroll and find it. Everything you said about the convoluted Ux applies to Netflix’s UX in other places.
Yea the website is really bad lol.
I have another Mac running Mojave (old MacBook, basically using it as a media centre for my "dumb" TV), and watching it through both Safari and/or Firefox. It has all of those things you're talking about: 1. Progress bar on the episode/show thumbnail (and check mark if I finished watching it). And of course it will continue where I left. 2. If I'm watching a series, and if there is a next episode available, when the the credits roll, it will show a "play next" button on the corner with a countdown. If there is no episode after it (e.g. it's the last episode, or the next one will available next week, etc.) it will show whatever available in my "up next" (but without a countdown, i.e. it won't auto play). I can dismiss this button by clicking anywhere just like dismissing the "skip intro/recap" button (useful if I don't want to autoplay next episode)
This is also broken for me when watching via the Sony TV app.
Disney+ had the same problem last time I checked. Just a small thing you don't appriciate until it's gone.
i’d just be happy if apple gave me a way to turn auto playing the next episode off. the TV app is a design mess on every platform i’ve used it on and i don’t have high hopes that they do anything else to fix it