If you don’t have an Apple phone, it’s not quite as useful since you can enter text on your phone and use it as a remote. AFAIK you’ll need to create an Apple I

If you don’t have an Apple phone, it’s not quite as useful since you can enter text on your phone and use it as a remote. AFAIK you’ll need to create an Apple ID to download apps on an Apple TV, and that’s about it. It does come with a remote, the touch remote is one of apple’s few bad products, if you get an Apple TV, wait for the new remote that re-adds buttons.