Apple TV 4 will be presented on September 9 by the Apple company together with iPhone 6S si 6S iPhone Plus, and today we learn new information about what the new product prepared by those from Cupertino will bring.
Thanks to some sources inside the Apple company, we learn that Apple TV 4 is codenamed J34 within Apple, but also that the product runs a version of iOS 9 specially modified to work on a TV screen, so we will have many new functions.
Design
One of the main changes of Apple TV 4 it's the design, the American company thinking in the end that a different look is needed for the product, the current one remaining unchanged in the last 5 years of availability of Apple TV in Apple stores.
According to sources in Cupertino, Apple TV 4 has a design very close to that of the current models, only that it is thinner and slightly wider, the case will remain plastic in order not to affect the connectivity necessary for its operation.
New remote control
One of the main novelties of Apple TV 4 is the remote control, the Apple company preparing a completely new one that is larger than the current one, allowing users to control the product using touches, this functionality being confirmed by OS X.
It is not known if Force Touch is implemented in the remote control, but Apple TV 4 can be controlled with presses or gestures, the remote control having Bluetooth and infrared technologies incorporated, so it could be compatible with the old models of Apple TVs.
Apart from all this, the new remote control would also have an integrated microphone that could allow voice control, and this is not hard to believe considering the evolution of Apple's services.
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If the remote control has an integrated microphone and probably a speaker, then it is normal to have support for Siri since we are talking about iOS 9 in Apple TV 4, so users could search for content, buy or rent content, or play content using only voice commands.
User interface
Because iOS 9 will run on Apple TV 4, Apple has also created a new user interface, it resembles both that of iOS and that of the current Apple TVs, and the image above could represent how maybe what we will see this fall from Apple.
Considering that the update is so important, it seems that this version of iOS 9 also works on the current Apple TVs, so their users could try it on their own products.
Proactive
In iOS 9, Apple implemented a system called Proactive that improves searches inside iDevices, but apparently also the new Apple TV 4, users benefiting from the possibility to search everything more easily, while receiving suggestions to download new content .
At the moment, users can't get results from all Apple stores when they search, but Proactive for Apple TV 4 will solve this problem, along with many others.
App Store
We have already told you for some time that Apple TV 4 will have a dedicated App Store with applications and an SDK, so that developers will be able to create applications for this product as they create applications for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or Mac and they will could offer many new functions.
Apple has most likely created a dedicated App Store where these applications will be hosted, users can download them from there, and among them we could also count the games that we keep hearing that Apple would allow us to run on the future or product.
Better components
Finally, we have from the Apple company a series of new components for Apple TV 4, those from Cupertino intending to offer the A8 chip of the iPhone 6S to improve the playback of 1080p content available in its stores, the current experience not being that great .
Moreover, the Apple company intends to offer at least 1 GB of RAM and at least 32 GB of storage space, so we are talking about a serious upgrade that will undoubtedly improve the experience of viewing content and running applications.
Price and release
Considering that the current model of Apple TV is sold for $69, it is expected that Apple TV 4 will cost $99 and could be launched on September 9 or earlier.
