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Here's what the budget-phone, non-laptop owning masses can look forward to if Apple has the Sunday Ticket: * First, install Apple Music on your phone. If you d
by AaronFriel 4y ago
Here's what the budget-phone, non-laptop owning masses can look forward to if Apple has the Sunday Ticket:
* First, install Apple Music on your phone. If you don't have a smartphone, you might just be out of luck here.
* Sign up for or create an Apple ID in Apple Music. Yes, Apple Music, even though you want TV.
* Start an Apple Music trial.
* Log in to the Apple TV app using your account, now that you have a valid account that will let you sign in.
* Use the Apple TV app to upgrade your account to Apple TV+
* Cancel your Apple Music Trial.
This is... absurd? I hope that the product folks are on top of this if they acquire the Sunday Ticket.
For the record, this is the advice currently on 9to5mac.com and is how I subscribed to watch Foundation on Android TV.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoWhy would they change it if you follow through with it?
- AaronFriel 4y agoWhy should products be easy to use?
- listenallyall 4y agoHonestly that is a good question for the NFL. Why was Sunday Ticket not available on cable systems? Why are great games often blacked out in favor of a "local" team's games (even when local may mean another state or hundreds of miles away)? Why does RedZone have a hard cutoff at 8pm even if overtime games are still in play?
- civilized 4y agoBecause I didn't and never will.
- wtallis 4y agoWhy are you recommending such a circuitous method involving an unrelated phone app when simply trying to access Apple TV in a web browser will lead you to the link to create an Apple ID—whether that browser is on a phone or not?
- AaronFriel 4y agoBecause you can't use that Apple ID to then play TV. You need the Apple Music activated account and trial, so you may as well use the Apple Music app to make it.
- wtallis 4y ago> You need the Apple Music activated account and trial That's obviously not accurate. It may be a sufficient workaround for whatever roadblock you hit, but it certainly isn't a requirement; I've never used Apple Music with my Apple ID and had no trouble obtaining Apple TV+ service. A more reasonable hypothesis is that you need to do something with a brand new Apple ID to establish it's authenticity before you can activate a free trial of Apple TV+, and the Apple Music workaround is but one of many options. What kind of error did you hit when trying to go straight to the TV+ trial with a brand new Apple ID?
- listenallyall 4y agoSunday Ticket has never been for the masses, it has always been exclusive to DirectTV, which has far fewer subscribers than cable.