Not Even Apple Can Clean Up the Mess of Streaming TV

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The new Apple TV app aims to solve the biggest problems facing TV watchers in the 21st century. Unfortunately, the expanding universe of TV viewing options doesn’t want to play along, writes our columnist pierce.

What do you do when you turn the TV on? You pop the popcorn, grab the clicker… then what? Now that we get our “TV” from Netflix and Amazon through devices from Roku and Samsung—not to mention our phones and iPads—there’s no longer an easy answer.

Here’s Apple Inc.’s idea: Next time you want to watch something, no matter what or where or why, just tap on the app called “TV.” That’s where Apple has built a hub for all your content, no matter where it comes from or which app you use to watch it. (It’ll eventually also be the...

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