> Not a great look, and it tells you that Apple is willing to compromise on their principles to make a buck.
I think they're holding a good balance here. For example, I do enjoy an alert from the burger slinger down the road when they put up a sale - but I had the choice between opting in or not.
Meanwhile, on Android you don't have the choice, all you can do is mute notifications from that app in the future (and lose out on important notifications) or remove it entirely.
If TV wanted to send notifications for new things that I have access to, that could be helpful. Like the “New music from artists you follow” that Music does. Sending notifications for things that require you to sign up for a subscription is unsolicited marketing and I’d rather they didn’t spam notifications for that, in accordance with the policies that they make everyone else on their platform follow.
One thing I wish Apple would copy from Android is having apps categorize their different types of notifications and let you turn them on and off individually. And then enforce that in the App Store review. I don’t need Uber to send me Uber Eats offers, but I don’t want to block useful notifications by turning all of them off.
They recently added a “time sensitive” categorization that you can let break through Focus Mode rules, but IMO that’s not granular enough.
I think they're holding a good balance here. For example, I do enjoy an alert from the burger slinger down the road when they put up a sale - but I had the choice between opting in or not.
Meanwhile, on Android you don't have the choice, all you can do is mute notifications from that app in the future (and lose out on important notifications) or remove it entirely.