We're back. What's up everybody? Welcome to this show. It's the Apple Bits XL, Brian Tong here, your host with the most for everything good

and bad inside the world of Apple, just got back from CES 2019 in Las Vegas. Last night I was going to try and do a show, but I fell asleep on the couch.

Because it's crazy. So we've got a lot to talk about stuff that happened around Apple during the show and before it and kind of where they are now.

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But I say, let's jump into this thing and I did kind of a little bonus

episode right before I left for CES because I thought it was relevant where

Apple had finally announced that they were going to pretty much open up their

platform at least on TVs, right? The first announcement came that Samsung would get not only

Airplay 2 but an actual iTunes TV

shows and movies app on its television sets for 2019. So I went to the show floor. They had kind of a shell of it. They just

had their kind of normal content media navigation, but they did have an icon on

screen for iTunes, movie, and TV shows for Samsung and we talked about it earlier before the show but this is a big deal

I said we're probably gonna hear more partners announce that they're that they're jumping on board with Apple and we did but it'll be a little different depending on who those

manufacturers are so after the Samsung announcement which was huge came out. LG, Vizio, and Sony all jumped on board and said

yes we will also be supporting Airplay 2 and Home Kit, but those three

platforms did not say they would have an actual iTunes TV show and movies app.

And you know what? That is fine because really they may eventually get an app, it's Apple's TV movie streaming service

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