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For those of us who don’t have a Samsung TV or mobile device, like yours truly, the offerings of the company’s TV Plus streaming service have been a mystery until now.It turns out that Samsung launched a web version of its free, ad-supported TV Plus a few months back, but just didn’t tell a lot of people about it.
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According to a new report in Protocol, the web service for TV Plus appears to have soft-launched in May.Besides making TV Plus available to nearly everyone, Samsung also updated its mobile app with the ability to project its streaming service to Google Chromecast devices in July.Considering the insular nature of TV Plus until now, these moves represent the company’s big, although timid, steps into the free streaming wars.
May 4, 2021 03:27 EDT
The big battle between Epic Games and Apple is currently in the process, and one of the key arguments that Apple has raised in the case si that developers have a choice that allows them to distribute apps for iOS through the web. However, a Google engineer has stepped forward against Apple s practices on the web and has even gone to the extent of calling iOS browsers uniquely underpowered.
It is important to make a point that the web, as we know, it is no longer what it used to be. Nowadays, one can do pretty much anything they want to do through a web app, everything ranging from the ability to stream content and edit pictures, documents, and whatever they wish to. Regardless of what a user is doing, everything comes back to the browser. A few browser engines aid the process, starting from Chromium, which Google Chrome runs on. However, Apple uses WebKit, which is what Alex Russel, Google s engineer wants to talk about.