People may not completely believe “the amount of development” bit. It’s the same frameworks! The code is plug and play! Heheheh.
- The whole screen layout has to be redesigned to be friendly to the Apple Remote instead of a touch screen. The apps that just let you use the remote to move around a cursor to click buttons are terrible.
- Using the remote when you’re sweaty? Ooof. It’s gotta be a very easy interface.
- Two Bluetooth connection limit. For a lot of people this is fine, but the edge cases where it doesn’t work leads to unhappy customers.
- TrainerRoad probably isn’t your entertainment. Apple’s tvOS has very limited picture-in-picture, but best case scenario is you watch something in a corner of your screen with a BIG power graph. Most of us probably want the opposite.
#4 is probably the key where an AppleTV app makes sense for Zwift, FulGaz, Rouvy, and The Sufferfest (the latter assuming they do it at some point). It’s also why running TrainerRoad on your phone and then whatever you want on the TV is probably going to be the best user experience for the most people, and #s 3-4 mean that making an AppleTV app is probably a losing proposition for TrainerRoad - even if they managed to address #1-2 with lots of development effort.