John GruberJan 28, 2023
The Amazon Prime app for Apple TV has some great features (e.g.: X-Ray tells you the actors in a scene when you pause) but is the cheapest-looking app I’ve used on any platform in decades.
Show threadAstraJan 28, 2023
@gruber 100% agree. on an OLED TV the overlay in the play/pause HUD looks awful and I can’t imagine they gave it much thought because for the longest period the app opened and gave me an error for about a month and a half. the only way to get it to work was to press the back button several times and pray to bezos that it’d work. no matter how many times i deleted and reinstalled it. really poor QA imo
Show threadAstra
@gruber there’s also the fact if you’ve setup any homekit automations to pause the tv they all fall over because the amazon tv app interprets the play and pause signals exactly the same. so it will toggle instead of the desired behaviour
Jan 28, 2023 at 6:56amWeb