I don’t care what features your smart TV has, here’s why you still need an Apple TV

Taking a bird’s-eye view, media streamers are a lot less critical than they used to be. Back in the early 2010s, they were a revelation, since the apps on TVs were often badly designed and powered by weak chips. If you even had a smart TV — many people were still using “dumb” TVs, and lucky to have something with an HDMI port.