topic Re: Add more Apps Support Independent in Sky Stream

Add more Apps Support Independent

Lddiamond — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 23:10:59 GMT

The puck is great however the limit on apps sucks. I love apps such as Nebula and Curiosity Stream. They give a lot of good content and help indipendant creators. You should make it so this and similar apps can be installed so the sky stream is the one for all TV.

Re: Add more Apps Support Independent

GD1 — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 09:10:27 GMT

@Lddiamond Like Sky Q Stream & Glass are closed system. It is up to the app owners to want their apps on the platform, Sky cannot unilateraly add other companies apps without any agreement in place, perhaps you need to direct your query to the app owners themsleves?

Re: Add more Apps Support Independent

TimmyBGood — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 10:54:55 GMT

@Lddiamond

Remember that Sky is an expensive subscription platform, which means that their subscribers expect comprehensive telephone and website support for all hosted apps. This has a really high cost to Sky and so they are extremely unlikely ever to have an open app store or to make hosting arrangements with app owners who can't offer a significant financial contribution to ongoing overheads: it's just not the same business model as other television/appliance manufacturers or mobile platform curators who simply pass that responsibility to app creators, or deny it entirely.

Re: Add more Apps Support Independent

MarkGoldsmith — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 10:39:46 GMT

@GD1 wrote:
@Lddiamond Like Sky Q Stream & Glass are closed system. It is up to the app owners to want their apps on the platform, Sky cannot unilateraly add other companies apps without any agreement in place, perhaps you need to direct your query to the app owners themsleves?

Also its unlikely to be economically viable for a lot of app developers to develop and support their apps purely for Sky's devices which have their own unqiue operating systems. Typically thats why the available apps currently tend to be apps belonging to other broadcasters who have relationships and tend to work quite closely with Sky.

Re: Add more Apps Support Independent

Jones_The_Cat — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 17:44:18 GMT

@Lddiamond

In a nutshell.... never gonna happen.

Re: Add more Apps Support Independent

Fothergill1 — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 18:39:45 GMT

@Lddiamond Other posters have already explained the situation but if you are using a Stream Puck could you not download the missing Apps to your TV?

Re: Add more Apps Support Independent

Exiled-in-HH — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 07:39:11 GMT

Or Roku / Fire devices carry most apps and are good backup when the Puck has issues?

Re: Add more Apps Support Independent

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:47:05 GMT

Switch to the excellent Apple TV and TV Launcher with apps galore.

fill your boots 😬

Re: Add more Apps Support Independent

Fothergill1 — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 13:56:11 GMT

@Anonymous I have been using my ATV more than I used to and have all the apps I want downloaded to it (including the TV launcher).

Re: Add more Apps Support Independent

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 14:43:37 GMT

@Fothergill1

You know it makes sense 😉😊

Adam the guy behind TV launcher tells me he has quite a few new features arriving soon with the launcher. 🤞🏻

Anything new and exciting with stream 🤔