Ok, definitely a milder case but it's still a sort of bloatware Apple should avoid.
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tvOS 18.2 No Longer Expected to Include More Apple TV+ Screen Savers
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I mean I don't really care for screensaves, but this is yet another pathetic development.
What has happened to Apple?
There was a time when Apple provided tools like Quartz Composer, which allowed even normal users to create quite sophisticated screensavers. And that was almost 20 years ago and Apple only had around 10% of their current headcount.
And now they are not even able to develop some simple screensavers themselves?
It really starts to look as if they painted themselves in a corner with their own development tools or something like that. Or they just don't care anymore.
What has happened to Apple?
There was a time when Apple provided tools like Quartz Composer, which allowed even normal users to create quite sophisticated screensavers. And that was almost 20 years ago and Apple only had around 10% of their current headcount.
And now they are not even able to develop some simple screensavers themselves?
It really starts to look as if they painted themselves in a corner with their own development tools or something like that. Or they just don't care anymore.
For their own shows?
Damn, I was looking forward to more screensavers my Apple TV could completely ignore and just play the aerial city at night screensaver anyway.
Just allow us to select which screensavers and delete individual ones we dont want.
(And that update had better fix the airpods-aTV crackling you get when you pause and forward/rewind).
(And that update had better fix the airpods-aTV crackling you get when you pause and forward/rewind).
Then don’t select that as your screensaver?
The upcoming tvOS 18.2 update adds a rotation of Snoopy screen savers to 2021 and newer Apple TV models, but it seems that an additional "TV and Movies" category of screen savers has been canceled, or at least postponed. These screen savers were expected to be based on various Apple TV+ series and movies.
As spotted by the Dutch blog iCulture, Apple removed all references to the "TV and Movies" screen savers on its website in mid-November, including a preview of a new screen saver based on the Apple TV+ series "Foundation."
Apple also updated fine print on its website, although only in the U.S. for now. Apple often takes longer to update its regional websites for other countries.
The previous fine print:
The current fine print: Snoopy is technically Apple TV+ content now, but it looks like additional Apple TV+ screen savers will not be coming any time soon.
We expect tvOS 18.2 to be released to the public in December. The rotating Snoopy screen saver is already available in the third beta version of the update.
Other screen saver categories on the Apple TV include Aerials and Memories, along with a Portraits option with clocks added in tvOS 18.0.
Article Link: tvOS 18.2 No Longer Expected to Include More Apple TV+ Screen Savers
I don't think it would be perceived as advertising, mainly because you would have to purposely select them as your desired screensaver. You would have go out of your way just to turn them on.
If there’s one thing Apple can do, it’s cancel things and pretend they never existed.
For now. And then they turn up the temperature a little more, and it’s on by default. Then a little more and it’s the wallpaper.
I hate to sound cynical but we have seen this happen to other streaming platforms. Services revenue is a constant temptation to serve more ads and popups and purposeful bad design.
To make a really, really good screensaver? It's hard. You need art directors, designers, video editors, probably copy writers, and a creative director overseeing the whole thing.
underwater screensavers done by photographers for Apple in 2020
land or flying above examples
Still more effective than the Switch's screensaver, probably.
I know, right?
Just put Flying Toasters on it.
Not really even joking, Apple's screensavers suck. Sure, the landscape and city stuff is nice for a few days, but they get old quick. Let us install better screensavers. There are a ton of open-source screensavers that would be great to be able to install, and if Apple would just stop abusing us and allow normal software installation on devices we own, it wouldn't be a problem, and the idiot "engineers" Apple hires wouldn't look like such idiots when they can't write a screensaver.
Nah. To make a REALLY, REALLY good screensaver you need one or two people who are bored and good at coding.
To make a crappy overproduced screensaver that gets boring in a week and REALLY annoying in a month, you use art directors, designers, video editors, copy writers, and a creative director overseeing the whole thing
I'm sorry but I can't accept a screensaver being labeled as bloatware.
McAfee on Windows installs? Bloatware.
A screensaver is not bloatware.
All problems are solved if they'd just give us a big ole screen full of screensavers and let us choose which ones we want. Therefore if you're worried about bloatware, just don't download anything. And if you only want certain ones, you're able to do that.