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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by addicted on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:37PM (#29787294)
Have you used HBO Max recently? Aside from the first month or so it’s been nearly flawless for me across a variety of platforms (Roku/Chromecast/iPhone).

And the first month pains were very clearly because it was rushed out to time it with the release of certain IPs during the pandemic.

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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by mmcconnell1618 on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:51PM (#29787479)
HBO Max on Apple TV is a terrible experience. The app doesn't appear to use the standard playback and navigation functions in most other Apple TV apps so you get unintuitive scrubbing behavior and inconsistent searching. Also, the app signs me out on a regular basis at random intervals. When this happens, you can still browse shows and click play but at that point you're interrupted with a "buy HBO Max" screen which is totally confusing. You have to manually navigate to the account, sign out, then sign back in and re-find the one episode you wanted to play.
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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by nr2x on Monday January 03, 2022 @09:28PM (#29790486)
To be fair, Apple TV is a pretty terrible experience, especially regarding them trying to force users to give Tim Apple a cut of streaming subscriptions.
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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by dwighttk on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:27AM (#29851453)
Huh… hasn’t been terrible in my experience, but I’ve never been forced to give Tim Apple a cut of my streaming subscriptions.
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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by nr2x on Monday January 03, 2022 @08:28PM (#29789894)
Use it regularly, and nearly always wish same content was on Netflix due to really awful compression artifacts I never see on Netflix.
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Re:Poll: Which FAANG is the most likely to decline in the ye... by HWR_14 on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:57PM (#29787534)
They still don't have a way to turn off auto play for the next episode. That's a basic feature and they're missing it.
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