After 31 July, Netflix will now not assist second and third-generation Apple TV. Netflix has up to date its assist web page for Apple TV, stating that the older Apple TV fashions will cease working with Netflix on the finish of subsequent month, based on CNET.
Apple launched the second-generation Apple TV in 2010 and adopted up with the third-generation mannequin in 2012. Though they’ve an nearly equivalent design to the present 4K mannequin, launched in 2022, they’re underpowered compared, with solely HD assist 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The second and third-generation Apple TVs are additionally outdated by Apple’s present requirements: the corporate ended all assist for the gadgets seven years after their launch dates – seven and 5 years in the past, respectively.
Though Netflix is accessible 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 now not warrant the assets 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 selections up to now. They’ve ended assist for a variety of older TVs, for instance, and so they haven’t bothered to develop an app for the Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Going ahead, it’s unknown when Netflix will part out assist for different Apple TV gadgets. However on condition that the fourth-generation mannequin was launched in 2015 – simply three years after the third-generation model – it might 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.