Old 09-18-23 | 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by PeteHski
I just don't think their market is big enough to make it worthwhile. You can run Zwift on Apple TV for little cost and is likely better than any console Zwift could bring to the market.
Honestly, if they're going to sell other trainers on their website besides their own (and that's what the settlement leads to), if they want to make things as turn-key as possible, they should also sell the newest apple TV - even if they drop ship it from apple. Yeah, the resolution isn't as good, but if they can say, all you need is a bike that you already own, a TV and a Hub and an Apple TV (both of which you can buy right here), that'd be the fastest/easiest way to onboard new people.

I've been playing around with indieVelo, and I like its mechanics a lot better than Zwift - if they could port over the worlds from Zwift, I might never use anything else (though I would miss the various race series I do on Zwift). What has kept a lot of the guys on my team from trying it out is that they only ride using Apple TV and indieVelo isn't on Apple TV - yet, developers need to submit changes/updates at least 2 weeks in advance to the appstore and the 1 developer is still pushing out new updates at least once a week currently and doesn't want to get locked into the appstore release schedule until he feels the app is more solid and will only need monthly updates like Zwift does.
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