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Ahmed BakirProgram the Internet of Things with Swift for iOShttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3513-3_9

9. Using tvOS to Build an Apple TV Dashboard App

Ahmed Bakir1 
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devAtelier, Tokyo, Japan
 

Although the Apple TV was introduced in 2007, its adoption rate was slow for several years, and it was famously described as “a hobby” by Steve Jobs. At that time, its main purpose was to serve as a set-top box for media purchased on iTunes. In 2012, a lower-priced, iOS-inspired Apple TV 2 came out and took off immediately. Instead of being limited to iTunes content, users could suddenly watch content from Netflix and popular TV channels via apps that were packaged with system updates. This led many people to suspect that the device was, ...

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