The Apple TV 4K streaming box is long overdue for an update. It launched two and a half years ago, in September 2017, and that’s …
The Apple TV 4K streaming box is long overdue for an update. It launched two and a half years ago, in September 2017, and that’s a really long time in the fast-paced world of streaming. Apple has concentrated its updates on services in the meantime, rolling out Apple TV Plus, overhauling the Apple TV app to include iTunes and developing an all-new gaming platform in Apple Arcade. But its flagship TV box has remained unchanged while competitors such as Roku, Amazon’s Fire TV and Google power an increasingnumber of new TV devices.
As usual with Apple, rumors of a refresh are always bubbling up, but the company hasn’t announced anything official yet. Here are a few things I would like to see in the 2020 update as well as some hopeful, if not terribly optimistic, wishes.
A near given in any refresh of Apple’s hardware, the latest rumors have Apple bumping the current box’s A10X chip up to a more capable A12X.
While potentially not as powerful as the A13 Bionic processor found in the iPhone 11 line and iPhone SE, the A12X is the same type of processor Apple used in the 2018 iPad Pros. Considering that Apple touted the chip as being capable of providing graphics that rivaled the Xbox One S when it introduced that iPad Pro, this could be a big boost for developers looking to push their Arcade games onto a bigger screen.
The Apple TV’s remote is ultra sleek and modern, with a premium look that fits the $180 starting price the Apple TV 4K still commands.
