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by myko 1603 days ago
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.

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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.