[karatestomp]

I'm about 99% sure the store on the PS3 was webtech. That beast of a machine could barely run its own store. They lost a lot of money from me as a result of the store being super-slow, input laggy, and crashy (OOM I assume), and I can't be the only one.

PS4 feels like they've taken webtech all over the OS interface. Its store's snappier than the 3 but the rest of the interface performs way worse. Usable, but far less pleasant.

[EDIT] store should be snappier than the 3, mind, since it's way more powerful hardware—it's still kinda slow, considering.

[paranoidrobot]

All sorts of devices with some kind of UI are using a browser in some kind of kiosk/headless mode.

STBs, Smart TVs, IFE systems are or were web based.

[zitterbewegung]

To be honest as time goes on the Smart piece of your device starts to get slower and slower.

One of the main drivers for getting a amazon fire stick is that it is much more responsive than the Smart TV itself.

[tonyedgecombe]

I thought that but the Youtube app on both my smart tv and Apple TV are broken in exactly the same way and unusable without a regular reboot.