Apple TV App Finally Comes to Amazon’s Fire TV – Get It Now

With only a little over a week to go until Apple’s highly anticipated streaming service launches, the company wants to make sure that you’ll be able to tune in to its hits like The Morning Show regardless of your choice of streaming device.

Apple has already recently added support for Roku devices, which the company announced would be coming back in the spring, and now today it’s released its Apple TV app for Amazon’s mainstream Fire TV devices too. This actually gives Apple TV+ a leg up over Disney’s upcoming Disney+ service, which isn’t coming to Fire TV anytime in the near future due to an advertising related dispute between the two giants.

According to Amazon’s announcement, the Apple TV app will be available for the second-generation Fire TV Stick and the Fire TV Stick 4K starting today, and it’s going to be arriving worldwide in over 50 of the countries where Apple TV+ will also be debut next week.

As with the Apple TV app that’s already available on Roku devices and Samsung smart TVs, this will not only allow Fire TV Stick users to watch Apple’s new original content, but it also carries over other features of the TV app, including the ability for users to access their entire iTunes library of purchased and rented movies and TV shows as well as accessing other streaming services that they’ve subscribed to through Apple TV Channels.

The only major difference compared to using the TV app on Apple’s own Apple TV 4K or Apple TV HD is that users won’t be able to actually purchase or rent new content directly from their Fire TV Stick; instead they’ll have to make those transactions using their iPhone, iPad, Mac, or PC — or even an Apple TV set-top box.

Once purchased or rented, however, new content will be available immediately through the TV app on the Fire TV stick. Similarly, users won’t be able to actually subscribe to Apple TV+ directly from their Fire TV Stick, although of course this can still be done from an Apple device, and those who don’t have another Apple device handy can easily do so on the web at tv.apple.com.

For Fire TV Stick 4K users, all of Apple’s original content will also be available in 4K, of course, along with the same selection of 4K movies and TV shows available on the iTunes Store.

How to Get It

If you have an Amazon Fire TV Stick (2nd Gen) or Fire TV Stick 4K you can download the app simply by asking Alexa to find it for you either using the Alexa Voice Remote or a paired Echo device.

Once installed, the app can also be opened simply by telling Alexa to “open the Apple TV app.”

Much like its debut on Roku’s set-top boxes, the arrival of the Apple TV app on Amazon’s Fire TV devices provides another inexpensive way to access Apple TV+ in your living room.

With Apple’s set-top boxes starting at $149 for the standard HD model and $179 for the 4K version, Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K is a huge bargain at $50 — even after you factor in the free year of Apple TV+ that comes with the purchase of a new Apple TV.

More Devices Coming Soon

For customers in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and India, the new app is available on both the Fire TV Stick (2nd Gen) and the Fire TV Stick 4K. Customers in the other countries where those models aren’t sold can also find it in the Amazon Appstore for the Fire TV Basic Edition.

However, this is just the initial release, and Amazon promises that it will be rolling out the app to all models of the Fire TV Cube, plus the 3rd-Gen Fire TV with the pendant design, and even the Toshiba and Insignia FIre TV Edition smart TVs and Nebula sound bar. Only the older first- and second-generation Fire TV and first-generation Fire TV Stick are being left out of the party, presumably because they don’t have the processing power to handle the new TV app.

Amazon notes, however, that it does have a trade-in program for users who are looking to upgrade from an older model, and are looking to save 20% on their new one.

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