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I have 2 Apple TV's, 3 Rokus. I've found that I never turn on my Apple TVs. The only thing I lose is access to a few movies I bought on ITunes. The walled-garde

I have 2 Apple TV's, 3 Rokus. I've found that I never turn on my Apple TVs. The only thing I lose is access to a few movies I bought on ITunes. The walled-garden nature of Apple's ecosystem and their unwillingness to allow other services full access is a total turnoff.

majormajor 9y ago
You have to deal with Roku UX and their apps' UX then, though. The spotify Roku app is a particularly terrible one when I tried a couple months ago. Went back to the store and got a Chromecast later the same night. (Spotify, of course, is also a problem on Apple TV, though - but overall I find Chromecast + ATV, or FireTV, way better than Roku, if you've got the budget. Or just Xbox One.)
- raisedbyninjas 9y ago
  I rarely stream music through the home theater, but we prefer the Roku over casting for anything except ad-hoc, youtube type clip watching.
karkisuni 9y ago
it has an app store now. the only notable exception i can think of is amazon videos and that's at least "coming soon". what can't you do at this point?
bfuller 9y ago
do the streaming apps on apple tv offer the content in good quality? i have some cheap tvs and notice the roku performs way better than the native apps
rconti 9y ago
My "smart TV" handles most services so I use it for Amazon and Youtube and Netflix where I can get 4k streaming. AppleTV does.. iTunes rented content and NFL.com stuff, plus HBO Go (stuff the TV either doesn't offer, or the AppleTV does better and isn't available in 4k in either place).