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stevejay27 said:

I don’t watch soccer. Ever. Allow us to be able to delete the MLS tab. 

I agree. It's like dropping a U2 album onto a hard drive. Didn't ask for it, don't want it, shouldn't be forced to.

wonkothesane said:

I still buy, don‘t stream - maybe a dying breed. Having said this, I avoids the ATV app and only go through Movies - even that one is not very usable through remote navigation.
We have 700+ movies in the library and it is a PITA to navigate them. Siri doesn‘t work with different languages of titles in the mix. You cannot create you own playlists/collections, something we could do in iTunes very early on. 

Beyond that, when I first time read „I cracked it“ and it was clear that Gene Munster was totally wrong my idea was that Apple would make a „meta app“: One great interface and all sources for movies, theirs, Disney, Netflix etc., under the hood. Turns out, not so much. I also wished they‘d had pushed for the option to buy additional language tracks. 

On the positive side: finally I can find my remote when our cats toyed with it :-)

The Apple TV App is meant to be such meta app. It lines up all the "Up Next" from all your content apps in the top row. It has one row per content app of "suggested", and you can search across all content apps.

What is confusing is that
- not all apps are supported, notably Netflix
- you can add additional content apps through Apple TV app, but these won't appear as an app on the home screen (while if you purchase the app in the app store, its on the home screen and supported by Apple TV app - or maybe not, its confusing....)
- there is a tab for Apple TV+ (but no tabs for the other apps purchased through Apple TV)
- there is no separate Apple TV+ app

They should have just made Apple TV app the meta app, and let everything else live besides it (App Store and TV+).

Even better: the home screen of the Apple TV should look like the home screen of the TV app; and what is now the home screen of the Apple TV should be a tab in the Apple TV app.

The TV app is confusing. All the other Content apps that sit alongside it, including iTunes TV, iTunes Movies, Netflix, Disney, BBC, etc., are single provider pay-per-view or subscription apps. The TV app aims to be an aggregator for all other content apps, and a store, and also carries a tab for Apple TV+ subscription: three wildly different services mixed in one app.
People think in structures and standards. It would have been more clear if Apple had a separate Apple TV+ app for only the subscription service, that users can compare mentally with all the other content apps. The TV app could then be more clearly positioned solely as an aggregator.
It seems they are going further down the wrong way and are making the same mistake as they made with iTunes: bloat it until no one knows how to use it and what it does.

It does not appear that this device could do anything that a Smartwatch couldn't do, but there are a lot of things a Smartwatch can do that this can't.
(maybe take photos, but that's it; and I do hope that the Apple Watch will be able to take pics one day, even low res or just QR codes).

dk49 said:

When will Apple watch support multiband cellular so that it can be used all over the world? 

Lets face it, the Apple Watch is not an item that needs to be upgraded every year, we should be happy about this.

But they introduced a mobile SIM six years ago(!), and I still can't use mobile networks when abroad. Having multiband cellular really would be a reason to upgrade. Maybe Watch 10 (or Apple Watch X).