After 31 July, Netflix will not help second and third-generation Apple TV. Netflix has up to date its help web page for Apple TV, stating that the older Apple TV fashions will cease working with Netflix on the finish of subsequent month, in accordance with CNET.
Apple launched the second-generation Apple TV in 2010 and adopted up with the third-generation mannequin in 2012. Though they’ve an virtually an identical design to the present 4K mannequin, launched in 2022, they’re underpowered as compared, with solely HD help and no App Retailer compatibility for Apple TV.
The second and third-generation Apple TVs are additionally outdated by Apple’s present requirements: the corporate ended all help for the gadgets seven years after their launch dates – seven and 5 years in the past, respectively.
Though Netflix is out there on all platforms, supporting an app on such a variety of {hardware} is resource-intensive. Netflix, like different app makers, analyses how their app is used and determines which gadgets not warrant the sources required to make sure they work with their software program. Now, the corporate has decided that older Apple TV fashions match into that class.
Netflix has made comparable choices prior to now. They’ve ended help for a variety of older TVs, for instance, they usually haven’t bothered to develop an app for the Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Going ahead, it’s unknown when Netflix will part out help for different Apple TV gadgets. However provided that the fourth-generation mannequin was launched in 2015 – simply three years after the third-generation model – it will not be lengthy earlier than it meets the identical destiny.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication Macworld Sweden and was translated and tailored from Swedish.
