Small thing that still confuses people: you no longer have to go through Apple to pay for Apple TV+. The Apple TV app on a Google TV device lets you subscribe from inside the app, MLS Season Pass included, and the same app turned up on the Play Store for Android phones and tablets.
Whether you should is a different question. Subscribing through whatever platform you happen to be sitting in front of is convenient and miserable to unwind later, because the billing relationship now lives with whoever sold you the sign up rather than with Apple. I have watched relatives hunt through three layers of the wrong account looking for a cancel button. If you ever plan to move between an Apple TV box and a Google TV set, keeping the subscription with Apple directly is the boring correct answer.
The upside is real for anyone who bought a Google TV television and only wants Apple's originals on it. Before this, the app could play content but not sell it, which was a strange half state that mostly served Apple's cut of the transaction. Severance or Slow Horses being one purchase away on a TCL set is how it should have worked from the start.
Anyone running the subscription through Google billing on purpose? Curious whether the price comes out identical or whether store fees show up somewhere once the promo period ends.
Whether you should is a different question. Subscribing through whatever platform you happen to be sitting in front of is convenient and miserable to unwind later, because the billing relationship now lives with whoever sold you the sign up rather than with Apple. I have watched relatives hunt through three layers of the wrong account looking for a cancel button. If you ever plan to move between an Apple TV box and a Google TV set, keeping the subscription with Apple directly is the boring correct answer.
The upside is real for anyone who bought a Google TV television and only wants Apple's originals on it. Before this, the app could play content but not sell it, which was a strange half state that mostly served Apple's cut of the transaction. Severance or Slow Horses being one purchase away on a TCL set is how it should have worked from the start.
Anyone running the subscription through Google billing on purpose? Curious whether the price comes out identical or whether store fees show up somewhere once the promo period ends.
