Apple Sports 4+

I have a couple feature requests and a couple accessibility concerns. First on features, lets add the Japanese Nipon Professional Baseball League, the Korea Baseball Organization and the Canadian Football League to leagues we can follow here in the states. Also, can we get an option to sort the play-by-play for concluded games from beginning to end rather then end to beginning? Also, with the baseball and hockey box scores, we need a way to see the number of goals in the season for each player and for baseball, we need to see the updated counting stats we see in the boxscore for players, such as doubles, triples, home runs, stolen bases, caught stealing, win/loss for pitchers and saves. Also, when tteams are playing more than one game on the same day as a split squad, those games are missing from the schedule and scoreboard. Finally, the accessibility concerns, no way when using Voiceover in iOS to exit the box score or play by play when you move deeper into the content, even when you scroll all the way back to the beginning. Also, when reading the play by play on longer documents such as in basketball and hockey, the page will jump back to the beginning when using iOS and does not read in a stable manner. Dividing the play by play into quarters for football and basketeball, into periods for hockey and every 3rd inning for baseball would help.

I went to write this review and see that another has commented my basic complaint months ago. To be a competitive alternative to ESPN to check scores, you need to have the Network given local location. Apple collects this info, including even the streaming and television network subscriptions on which a game is shown in any given location. Apple could draw level with ESPN for this purpose by including the network info. Apple could, in my opinion, carve out a legitimately useful novel role if they were to implement a plan for this all that makes it somewhat like “RedZone” on NFL Sunday Ticket. That is, across numerous sports, and streaming services, Apple could make carve a novel marketplace purpose for this app by making the function of the app to do what it currently does, while gathering subscription info needed to independently access certain games, and creating a multi-game viewer in their app which would be the first app to allow such a sports-centered viewing experience unlike anything on the market. Only a company in the position of Apple could make this happen. Doing so would bring viewers from individual streaming services to Apple’s App to view their games. That’s ad time, minimally, in exchange for giving the user a program to make compatible numerous games from different streaming services compatible in the same viewer. Currently, the product has none of this but it could become something a lot better.

This is an excellent app, free from the intrusive ads seen on ESPN’s app. It’s simple, straight forward, and allows the users to select which sports, leagues (if applicable), and teams they want to follow for regular score updates. For this to be a successful app and to further enhance the user experience, Apple should consider adding the following two features:
1. Broadcast information
The ability to know what network the game is being broadcast on would allow users to know if they can watch the game in their area while keeping track of other scores of happening simultaneously.
2. Full season schedules
Currently, this app only shows the upcoming games for the current week and not the entire schedule for that sport. It would be very beneficial to to provide the user the ability to view the entire schedule for each sport’s current and upcoming season (if upcoming season is available). For example, ESPN’s app offers a week-by-week breakdown of the college football schedule with for the entire season, allowing users to see who’s playing in any given week. Having access to the full schedule would definitely increase the amount of users wanting to use this app.