Walmart Offers Apple Services Deal with Purchase of Any Google TV-Powered Onn Streaming Box

I missed the news when it hit a month ago, but Ben Schoon at 9to5 Google reported at the time Walmart is offering a promotion whereby if you buy one of their house brand Onn streaming boxes, you get three months of Apple TV+ (and other Apple services) thrown in for free. Schoon specifically calls out the Onn 4K Plus box in his story, but the promotion does extend to the Onn 4K, Onn Full HD, and my favorite, the Onn 4K Pro too.

Schoon wrote the aforementioned 4K Plus is “the most affordable and best value in Google TV hardware”; priced at just $44.73 as of this writing, he wasn’t wrong. For my money, however, I highly recommend “splurging” by instead opting for the 4K Pro. Its price is exactly the same and you get twice the storage (16GB vs. 32GB) and an extra gig of RAM (2GB vs. 3GB), plus an Ethernet port and the box serves as a smart speaker when you’re not watching anything. I wrote about the Onn 4K Pro earlier this month, saying in part Walmart’s box “pleasantly surprised” me. Moreover, the 4K Pro is an inexpensive entry point into Google TV; as I also said, although I prefer tvOS on the Apple TV 4K overall for its polish and especially its performance, Google has imbued its TV platform with lots of thoughtful touches and functionality I yearn for Apple to someday adopt for their own software. Apple TV+ indeed is available on Google TV, with all the same great content that make subscribing well worth it despite the recent price hike to $13/month.

Besides TV+, the Onn deals include 90 days of Apple Music and Fitness+ as well.