Yes, Apple is annoying. But so are all the other big cloud companies. It was only a matter of time until they noticed that if you have 1 billion customers and your competition is similarly evil, you truly don't need to care about your customers. Sure, take their money, but apart from that, who cares if their experience is horrible?
Apple TV spams you with ads. Apple iOS Settings spam you with ads. In general most iOS apps will abuse notifications to send you ads. Android is filled with ads. Android TVs spam you with ads, even the $2000+ ones. Google Chromecast refuses to work if you block 8.8.8.8, or else it'll use it to spam you with ads. Even Netflix will spam you with ads when you're idle for a few seconds. Edge? Ads. Windows start menu? Ads. Lock-screen? Ads.
But guess what, you only get treated like sh*t if you're a paying customer. Torrents for Netflix rips are the same great quality and great content and you can even watch them from USB on a fully offline (read: ad-free) TV. It's only once you start paying Apple or Netflix for their shows that they start abusing you ... And then the same executives that created these perverse incentives get interviewed on TV and whine about people not paying for their content ^_^
Apple TV spams you with ads. Apple iOS Settings spam you with ads. In general most iOS apps will abuse notifications to send you ads. Android is filled with ads. Android TVs spam you with ads, even the $2000+ ones. Google Chromecast refuses to work if you block 8.8.8.8, or else it'll use it to spam you with ads. Even Netflix will spam you with ads when you're idle for a few seconds. Edge? Ads. Windows start menu? Ads. Lock-screen? Ads.
But guess what, you only get treated like sh*t if you're a paying customer. Torrents for Netflix rips are the same great quality and great content and you can even watch them from USB on a fully offline (read: ad-free) TV. It's only once you start paying Apple or Netflix for their shows that they start abusing you ... And then the same executives that created these perverse incentives get interviewed on TV and whine about people not paying for their content ^_^