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mjtomlin said:

Has anyone lived a lesser life because they weren't able to watch Amazon-only content directly on their AppleTVs? I seriously doubt it.

I dropped my Prime membership years ago. And I've been seriously considering deleting my Amazon membership as well. Most online shops offer some form of free or cheap shipping nowadays anyway - Amazon does not, unless you sign up for Prime.

Lol, what an ignorant statement. Amazon does offer free shipping for non-Prime, any order over $25, same as most of those other places you talk about. As soon as you start spouting off lies as if they’re fact, you lose all credibility in any argument you make. You don’t find value in it, that’s fine. But there are those of us that find it as an incredible value and greatly appreciate this decision finally being made.

ssayler said:

Apple, you had me until micro USB. What a head scratcher on a $350 product. I'll keep my Bose QC headphones until you figure this out.

Uh, the QC35’s charge via micro-USB,  and are also $350. Your argument is invalid.

This would be akin to a developer having an app that accessed the iTunes Store, but lets you stream any of the songs you want. I’m sure Apple wouldn’t be happy since that would make Apple Music redundant, even though the other app is still using Apple’s infrastructure. Don’t really see how Google can be blamed here.

ph382 said:

I wonder if this will cause Apple to invest extra effort in detecting apps that send out the phone's location ( a la AccuWeather ) ?  That's information that could certainly be misused.

If it's anything like the phones they issue us in the military, they will be heavily locked down to only approved, pre-installed apps, and most all of the privacy settings will be strictly locked down as well.

AppleInsider said:

Notification Dots are small dots on the app's icon, advising that the app has a notification for the user, a function that has been used on iOS for a considerable amount of time since its inception. 

FTFY