Apple can be including the flexibility to subscribe to Apple TV+ via each the Android and Google TV apps utilizing Google’s cost system, whereas the outdated Google TV app required subscribing on one other system.

Apple TV+ is on the market for $9.99 a month, or $19.95 a month as part of an Apple One subscription that bundles 2TB of iCloud storage, Apple Music, and Apple Arcade help (a seven-day free trial of Apple TV+ can be accessible). MLS Season Cross is on the market as a completely separate $14.99 a month or $99 per season subscription, however individuals who subscribe to each Apple TV+ and MLS Season Cross can save $2 a month or $20 a 12 months on the MLS subscription.

Apple TV+ has had a handful of critically acclaimed reveals, together with Ted Lasso, Sluggish Horses, and Severance. However up to now, that hasn’t translated to large subscriber numbers; as of last year, Apple had spent about $20 billion making unique TV reveals and films for Apple TV+, however the service has solely about 10 p.c as many subscribers as Netflix. As Bloomberg put it final July, “Apple TV+ generates much less viewing in a single month than Netflix does in in the future.”

Whether or not an Android app may also help flip that round is anybody’s guess, however providing an Android app brings Apple nearer to parity with different streaming companies, which have all supported Apple’s units and Android units for a few years now.