UPDATE 8/12/15 13.20am Sky is finally available on Xbox One today (thanks, Xbox One UK).
There doesn't seem to be a link on the Xbox Store, but you can find the app now via the console's own marketplace./p>
Download the app overview. Choose your device. IOS - install the app; Android - install the app; Fire - install the app; Windows - download the app; Mac - download the app; Sky Sports on Sky Go - click to open detail panel. Sky Cinema on Sky Go - click to open detail panel. Kids on Sky Go - click to open detail panel.
The app gives access to live channels and on demand content, including box sets.
With a normal Sky subscription you get Sky Go. Which allows you watch Sky on up to 2 mobile devices or pc's. Sky Go extra, which is £5 extra, unless you have a multi room subscription in which case it is free, allows you to watch on up to 4 mobile devices, games consoles and pc's, it will also allow you to download content. .Nintendo Switch Online: App launched but does not connect after logging in. Endless loop.Omnifocus: App Opens, but crashes upon trying to add tasks. (Still works on iPadOS).Remote: Works basically as it should, but just crashes pretty frequently.SmartHQ – launches, but quits when you tap to the appliance control screen.
You'll need a Sky Go Extra subscription (£5.99 a month) to access the service, or Sky Multiscreen customers get it for free. There's currently a two month free trial for Xbox owners who already have Sky TV - just sign up at sky.com/xbox.
UPDATE 6/11/15 9.05am Xbox One will soon get a Sky TV app, Microsoft has said.
UK Xbox marketing chief Harvey Eagle told Eurogamer the app is in development now for Xbox One and 'coming soon'. He couldn't commit to a release date.
The Xbox 360's Sky TV app proved popular, so its omission from the Xbox One raised eyebrows. It left those who wished to watch Sky on their new console with the option of streaming with the Now TV app, or running their Sky box through their Xbox One. The PlayStation 4 has had a Sky TV app since December 2014.
On PS4, the Sky TV app requires a £5 Sky Go Extra subscription (this is on top of your existing Sky subscription). For that you get access to live channels, catch-up telly and the Sky Store. The Sky TV app will no doubt work similarly on Xbox One.
Meanwhile, Eagle reiterated that Cortana functionality (Microsoft's digital assistant) will be released to Xbox One preview members later in 2015, but won't be released to everyone else until 2016. This despite Cortana's availability on Windows 10 devices, and a Windows 10-flavoured update set to hit Xbox One very soon.
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On June 15, Apple rejected an update to a previously-approved iOS app called Hey. The app is for a new email service created by a company called Basecamp.
The rationale for said rejection was that Hey offered a subscription via-website without also offering a parallel subscription via Apple's in-app purchase (IAP). Apple takes a 30% cut of IAP revenues during an app's first year, and 15% thereafter.
In defending Apple's policy to TechCrunch, Phil Schiller stated (as quoted above), 'You download the app and it doesn’t work, that’s not what we want on the store.'
If this site is doing its job, it's pointing out the uneven nature by which Apple chooses to enforce this standard, as well as the types of businesses it has decided to extract economic rent from.
I'm an independent developer myself, and I don't have the ability to spend years on my own product only to have Apple change the rules on me mid-stream. I have a vested interest in Apple changing its practices here.
Yes, the App Store has been gerrymandered to carve out exceptions for many different types of companies, such as Netflix, for a long time. Reasonable people can disagree about whether Apple is uniquely entitled to email revenue but not digital movie revenue.
However, according to Ben Thompson of Stratechery, the rules applying to IAP and Hey are recent, unwritten reinterpretations of policy for software-as-a-service companies like Hey.
You can see this in the above case of Fastmail. They provide a very similar-in-scope service / app combination as Hey, and have now been required by Apple to newly provide subscriptions via IAP.
Here's the first Twitter thread I saw on the issue by Basecamp CTO David Heinemeier Hansson.
Here's the original TechCrunch article quoted above by Matthew Panzarino.
Here's coverage from NBC News by David Ingram.
Here's an article at The Verge by Nick Slatt.
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Here's a long-form company response by Basecamp CEO Jason Fried.