Apple TV Is a Radical Rethinking of Your Relationship With Your Hardware and Games

This week, for the first time since it debuted in 2007, the Apple TV will welcome native games. But games are far from the only first for Apple’s new set-top box.

Behind the scenes, apps will run on an aggressive, intelligent operating system called tvOS. In many ways, tvOS is a radical rethinking of the fundamental nature of operating systems and our relationship with them. And because of that, its rules and limitations look odd.

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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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