I’m fully in the apple ecosystem but agree that a person shouldn’t be forced to buy another device to use the device at hand. The ecosystem should be a nice to have and not a necessity (although Apple Watch might be an exception, given how much it relies on the iPhone for its functionality).
The fact that they were able to use their Apple TV before this TOS prompt seems like this blocking TOS prompt was a miss on Apple’s part and they should fix it.
Until 2 months ago, they forced you to have an Apple Watch to be able to watch Fitness+ videos, even if you were already paying for the Apple One bundle that includes Fitness+.
There was no technical reason for this requirement, as Fitness+ is just videos, and even if you had an Apple Watch, you did not need to be wearing it to watch the videos.
While we're on the topic but silly Fitness+ restrictions: Each family member needs to have their OWN iPad to use it with Fitness+.
For example, I have an iPad + Apple Watch, I can use it with Fitness+. My wife however, with her own Apple Watch, cannot use MY iPad for Fitness+. Instead, she needs a whole other iPad set up as her, or it cannot "see" her Apple Watch/has no concept of her.
Family Sharing is under-baked. Fitness+ is also under-baked. The fact they have zero interactive fitness games on Fitness+ is frankly embarrassing, I had fitness equipment 20 years ago which had interactive games tied to your workouts, and Apple with the best programmers in the world, 100x more powerful hardware, and better development toolkits has developed nothing beyond video-recordings of studio workouts.
Actually the fitness-gaming ecosystem is frankly is a terrible state. Currently, Nintendo or Meta are the leaders in spite of them doing little to try.
Sure! It'll only help make app development more accessible. I also think I should be able to write code for my own iOS device, sign it myself and run it on my own device without paying them $99/year since I "purchased" the iOS device.
>but agree that a person shouldn’t be forced to buy another device to use the device at hand.
They shouldn't be, but that's the reality whether we like it or not. We all know by now, or should if we haven't been living under a rock, how Apple operates and how hostile it is to people who don't want to be fully in the Apple ecosystem. So it's the user's responsibility to make better choices and avoid Apple products altogether if they don't want to be fully in the Apple ecosystem.
It's just like many other bad things in life. We can wish all we want that things were different, talk about how it shouldn't be this way, how people shouldn't become serial murderers, etc., but bad things happen and some people (and companies) are just evil, so we have to deal with that instead of wishing it was different.
The fact that they were able to use their Apple TV before this TOS prompt seems like this blocking TOS prompt was a miss on Apple’s part and they should fix it.