It is the worst of the major streaming apps. It's very slow and has lots of loading/reloading on every piece of hardware I've used it on (Android phone, iPad, AppleTV, AndroidTV).
I imagine the other streaming apps use similar techniques to share code, so I wonder why theirs is so poor in this regard.
Outside of the major players though it gets a lot worse - Funimation's streaming app is horrendous, as is Crunchyroll's. At least Prime Video is doing better than that tier.
But Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world - Crunchyroll has an excuse. Amazon doesn’t.
My girlfriend’s smart TV runs WebOS and if we have to use Prime for some reason it’s easier to plug the laptop in via HDMI and do it via a browser. Amazon’s app seems to just be broken on WebOS there.
Not only that, but what the heck is up with the completely uninspired UI and user-hostile UX? The importance of seasons being lumped together is something a focus group should have noticed.
Amazon was a web-first company - you really have to wonder how they screwed up their user experience so, so badly.
I cannot believe how Amazon is one of the biggest company on the planet and still cannot seem to figure out UI/UX for any of their product. Amazon (the website) having an awful UX might be "by design" (i.e dark patterns) but it make no sense for Amazon Video, AWS dashboard, the kindle/device side of the Amazon website, ...
To be fair, just look what happened to Skype after Microsoft let a designer loose on it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... They might have wanted to avoid that and just let their devs dump data into screens without a real design.
I'm not a big fan of what some designers deliver, but sitting down with maybe one or two users and seeing how they try to make sense of the mess that is AWS might have made sense.
I actually think this is a product of Amazon's workplace culture. The old joke about the first 90% taking 90% of the time and the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time. Amazon only invests in the first 90%, and doesn't give a shit about the rest of it because they have already won the monopoly, and their sociopathic stack ranking forced firing culture won't reward people working on polish.
In UIs, that second 90% is polish. Polish comes from low priority ticket/feature fulfillment, and if you're working on low priority tickets, that means you're getting fired in the next reaper cycle.
I imagine the other streaming apps use similar techniques to share code, so I wonder why theirs is so poor in this regard.
Outside of the major players though it gets a lot worse - Funimation's streaming app is horrendous, as is Crunchyroll's. At least Prime Video is doing better than that tier.