Comments on: AirPlay Pulled From Some Apps in Latest iOS 4.2 Beta

By: giovanni

giovanni — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:16:48 +0000

why you can see video coming from apps with av cable and not with airplay? doesn’t make sense!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:52:10 +0000

Nice conspiracy theory.

Did you know 9/11 was planned by the government too!?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:47:53 +0000

I think you missed the obvious. Why would you push YouTube through airplay when you can stream it on aTV already. All your going to do my streaming through another device is increase the chance of having lag in your video. What they are doing is making to someone doesn’t do this then bitch about the quality.

Also this doesn’t prevent streaming of illegal content. What illegal content do you get from YouTube that is restricted to your phone and not your tv? None. If you want to watch something you got through Iillegally just dump it into iTunes, it’s always been possible

Time to put the tin hats away.

By: PD

PD — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:23:05 +0000

@Richard Walsh, I did read the article and included some observations about it in my response to this particular person.

For one thing, the author of the article claims that AirPlay has been pulled from some apps in the latest update, specifically, YouTube. Well, YouTube is one app, not many. Saying “apps” when you are referring to one specific app is misleading, and false, and I said so.

For another, he cites one of his other articles stating that in the other article, “I speculated that AirPlay might provide a backdoor by which users could get unprotected content secured from less-than-legitimate sources streaming directly to their living room setup.” Well, what does that mean? That means content downloaded from someplace other than the iTunes store can be played in your living room using an Apple TV, but the author tries to make it sound mysterious and sinister, and somehow an important point. As anyone with an Apple TV and iTunes knows, you can and always have been able to play content other than Apple’s on your TV. Yet, now AirPlay is some sort of sinister “backdoor?” The article’s author brought up Apple TV, not me, and made this ridiculous statement. The person who left the comment came away from this article believing that only content from the iTunes store could play on an Apple TV because of it. I was trying to correct the misinformation. The author created sensationalist misinformation for a headline, and I said so. I stand by it.

By: Richard Walsh

Richard Walsh — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:19:41 +0000

@PD, the purpose of this article has nothing to do with the content you stream. The purpose of this article was to discuss how AirPlay was pulled from the latest iOS beta, with the exception of the apps we know about.

This is not a false headline. You have no idea what this article was about, you have just posted a reply to someones comment about the AppleTV, which in all has a minor impact of this article. I suggest you read the article, not just the comments.

By: Angry Zebra

Angry Zebra — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:10:05 +0000

Why not wait until the product is released before getting upset?

By: zach_manchester

zach_manchester — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:48:35 +0000

I have an idea why Airplay might have been pulled from this beta (but, I am probably wrong).

The other day, I went to the Apple TV forum on the Apple support page and asked was it feasible for iPhone 3g/3gs/4 and the new iPod Touch to be able to use the rear facing camera for Facetime and to then Airplay the receiving video therough the Apple TV. Technically, I think this would be possible and would be a “one more thing…” to increase sales of Apple TV.

My post was pulled by Apple and I was sent an email stating that they do not allow speculation about Apple products on the forum. Fair enough.

But, I would be seriously surprised if this will not be a feature. I have an iPhone 4 (so I have a front/back camera). My partner has a 3GS and we have an Apple TV – this would allow us to use Facetime, and indeed for many 3G/3GS users. Apple is a company who wants to make money; instead of it going down the route of implementing it into desktop iChat (which would not produce new revenue for Apple) allowing Facetime through Apple TV would secure more sales. But there again, I could be very wrong in my speculation.

By: Sachin

Sachin — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:21:08 +0000

What i believe is that this might be temporary..just for the beta tag…

By: PD

PD — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:42:54 +0000

@Chriet- That is not true at all. You can stream anything you want from iTunes including things you have not bought from Apple. Likewise, you can watch YouTube and, in the US, subscribe to Netflix and other services. Besides all that, if you have not checked out the wealth of audio and video available for free in the iTunes store – thousand of podcasts, “iTunes U” educational and instructional videos, and incredible free radio stations – then you are missing out on so much. You can watch and/or listen to all of these on your home TV/stereo setup using your Apple TV directly. I love my Apple TV.

I have premium cable and a DVR I rent from the cable company. The quality sucks. So sometimes I buy the shows from iTunes but I sometimes download via usenet the HD content, throw it in iTunes and then watch it using my Apple TV. The quality is SO much better. Since I already a) pay for premium cable, and b) pay to rent a DVR recorder that lets me record and time-shift the shows, I figure I’ve already paid to watch the shows I download on usenet. I love the quality of the downloaded shows, especially from iTunes, and also love that I don’t have to fast-forward through endless commercials like I must do with the DVR.

The point is, you can watch content from anywhere you want on your Apple TV. This blogger seems to make huge assumptions and make big deals out of absolutely nothing, and if he feels he needs to relate some false information to get a headline along the way, he does it without regard for honesty or journalistic ethics.

By: PD

PD — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:26:07 +0000

Your statement, “AirPlay might provide a backdoor by which users could get unprotected content secured from less-than-legitimate sources streaming directly to their living room setup” is ridiculous. What you mean to say is, “audio and video from sources other than the iTunes store,” so why don’t you just say that? At any rate, you can already do that by dropping the file into iTunes, and then playing it on your Apple TV.

What’s the difference from playing it from your iPad? Why do you make it sound so sinister? And why would Apple disable it on YouTube when you can stream YouTube video directly on your Apple TV without the need of an iPad. Your assumptions in search of “news” are way out there.

You start the story by saying AirPlay has been pulled from some apps, when you go on to say it’s only from one app. Why the lie?