Apple Music on Apple TV to get Siri integration

Perhaps in a bid to get more users to subscribe to Apple Music, the company will be adding Siri support for Apple Music on the new Apple TV. So, you can ask it to play you your favorite albums and the like. Siri’s already able to conduct universal searches for video content on the set-top box, now it will be able to do it for music, too. Well, at least it will be able to do so by early next year.

Source: BuzzFeed | Via: 9to5Mac

Amazon to stop selling Apple and Google streaming devices

This could raise flags with regulators as Amazon decides to stop selling Apple TV and Google Chromecast on its site by October 29^th. Their reason? From the looks of it, to get more people to use their Prime Video service. According to Amazon, “Over the last three years, Prime Video has become an important part of Prime. It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion.”

But are they breaching any anti-trust laws? By stopping sale of items by their competitors, are they stifling competition? Do they have that big of a market to make this move illegal? Let’s see if this raises any flags. For now, you still have until the end of the month to shop for these items on Amazon.

Source: Slate

VideoLAN developing VLC app for Apple TV

VideoLAN, the team behind VLC app, is making its presence felt on Apple’s ecosystem. According to VideoLAN’s lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the VLC app for Apple TV is still in its early stages but they are making progress with it. “Finally, some code to build VLCKit for the new tvOS was merged. It’s very early though, but we have video playback!”

VLC is an app that lets users play video and audio files in a variety of formats. But they aren’t alone in supporting Apple TV. The company behind Plex, an app that lets you stream files from your computer, also has plans for Apple’s set-top box. We should be hearing more about these in the near future.

Source: JBKempf.com | Via: The Verge

Apple TV gaming could support third-party controllers

We’d assume you’d like to try gaming on the new Apple TV. But using a remote control is a bit weird for gaming. You do have the option use third-party controllers because you connect them via Bluetooth. However, it might be a bit more complicated since any third-party OEM has to pass Apple’s MFi program. Right now, when you look at Apple’s gaming page for Apple TV, you see Steelseries controllers. Hopefully the options increase as time goes on though.

Source: The Next Web