Apple trying so hard to make Siri relevant. I don’t think it’s worth a $299 premium (up $170 from previous gen).

I would skip this generation of Apple TV and buy previous generation on a third party marketplace when people inevitably offload the current generation.

Y'all can thank Sam Altman personally for the price increase.

Oh, more AI. Just what I wanted.

I was going to recommend people switch to the Google TV Streamer 4k, but I just realized they raised the price on that $50 a couple months back.

Apple removed all streaming apps from the Apple TV platform, so for new users: Apple TV is all but useless now.

Thanks, I hate the microphones. Not for privacy reasons, but because I already have problems with HomePods answering when I want my phone to do so, or vice versa, or the one in a different room all together answering when I tell it to set a timer and then I have to go down the stairs and shout at it. And now they want me to hook up two or four HomePods with microphones up to an Apple TV with a microphone and trust that it won't be a giant pain in the ass every time I say 'Siri'?

Not much of an upgrade after so many years

Old Apple TV was like Airport Express and the Airport routers. Excellent hardware, simple to use, and unloved by Apple cause "muh Dieter Rams".

Interestingly, it has 8 GB LPDDR5X, up from 4 GB LPDDR4 in the 3rd gen. That's a sizeable part of the BOM cost, I assume. They really wanted local AI?

At least according to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_TV_(device)#Technical_sp...