The app also includes full support for features like Picture-in-Picture and AirPlay, and it works on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, although you’ll need to be using macOS Big Sur or later. The new Amazon Prime Video app is a full macOS app, which means it supports all the standard macOS features without the need to resort to the UI quirks that result in trying to map a touchscreen-based app to a mouse and keyboard interface. However, with the ability to run iPhone and iPad apps on an M1 Mac, it’s become clear that not only are Netflix and the gang uninterested in bringing native apps to the Mac, but they don’t even want you running the iPad version - most of them have explicitly blocked their iPad versions from the Mac App Store, with HBO Max being the notable exception.Īmazon isn’t simply opening up its iPad app to the Mac. The app appears to be largely a port of Amazon’s iPad app, which of course, begs the usual question as to why other streaming services can’t do the same thing. However, Mac fans of Amazon Prime Video now have a better option, thanks to the new Amazon Prime Video app, which is available today on the Mac App Store. To view these services on a Mac, you simply open them up and stream through Safari or whatever web browser you prefer to use. With the obvious exception of Apple TV+, almost all the major streaming services - from Netflix and Hulu to Disney+ and HBO Max - only provide native apps for the iPhone and iPad. Amazon has just launched a Mac version of its Prime Video app, making it one of the very few streaming services to offer a native app experience on macOS.

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