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hatramroany t1_j4q0ev2 wrote

This is the first comment under the article:

>This is just a UX messaging error. I am in the boat of owning an Apple TV and no other Apple devices. All I had to do was sign out of my iCloud account and sign back in. That presented the terms right on the TV screen. I accepted them, and the prompt no longer appears.

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Pubelication t1_j4q65ix wrote

C'mon, man! You're ruining the outrage!

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LoafyLemon t1_j4qavfd wrote

Doesn't change the fact it's still incredibly stupid. Are they even testing the updates?

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africanasshat t1_j4qkxp5 wrote

Well that’s anti climatic. Guess I’ll just go find something else that’s wrong with them then.

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DameonKormar t1_j4s612h wrote

The Apple "family" stuff can only be managed from an Apple device. And unlike Android, I can't put another user on one of my kid's iPhones, so I have to keep an old iPad in my office and the only time I ever use it is when I need to change a family setting.

Super annoying, honestly.

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Nawnp t1_j4tw7ln wrote

If it prompts differently, it's not a bug but still bad design, just the commenter found a workaround (thankfully) to it.

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[deleted] t1_j4vrsik wrote

It's absolutely buck wild to me how many victims of Apple Derangement Syndrome sincerely thought this was a design choice and not a bug. In what universe would this even make sense from a business perspective? "In order to use this $130 streaming device you need a $1000 iPhone." People would just buy a fucking Roku instead.

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BeowulfsGhost t1_j4txlya wrote

You totally ruined my snarky reply! Take my sullen up vote dammit!

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MSTRFLSH t1_j4ug0tf wrote

"error". There's a whole bunch of elderly and technically inept people out there panicking, now looking to buy an iOS device or their TV won't work and Apple knows it.

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cardcomm t1_j4vp8p1 wrote

but how, as users, were we supposed to know this?

I faced this myself (my iPhone needed updated, and I didn't want to update) - I guess I wasn't brilliant enough to know automatically that logging out if iCloud was gonna fix it! smh

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