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Should Apple Enforce UI/UX Standards on ATV?
(alien.top)
My main complaint is that there isn’t a consistent experience between apps. Things are in different places, actions do different things in different apps, no gesture support, subpar players with horrible scrubbing, etc.
I think all apps should be held to a few basic UI/UX standards so going from one app to another isn’t a completely different experience.
The attached photo is just one example. Within the Apple TV app itself, long pressing an icon brings up this great menu allowing you to go straight to the show or the episode page. Long pressing in most other apps removes the show from your now playing list! All of these conflicting actions need to be rectified.
Would love them to, especially when you look at apps like prime video, YouTube and YouTube tv, who insist on using their own players, that are not as good of an experience.
Any attempt to force the use of Apple's player would return the Apple TV to "pretty much useless" status when it comes to Plex. So, personally, I really don't want to see that.
as I said on /r/plex, this is why I pay for infuse with free plex account 🤷♂️
Infuse would be equally as worthless
what? their player is (at least looking like) the stock apple TV SDK one.
u/GenghisFrog
Infuse is a great case of making exceptions pertaining not using the native player, yes.