dysamoria

winstoner71 said:

dysamoria said:

sdw2001 said:

AppleZulu said:

If only Amazon would hire some app developers to re-work their video app UI. For years that app has been the digital equivalent of a WalMart bin of bargain DVDs. There's probably good stuff in there you'd like to see, but it's buried in a random pile of poor-quality, out-of-copyright junk, along with d-list content from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Hopefully the purchase of MGM would mean they'll value the asset and upgrade their app to present it (and other content) well, rather than just turning MGM into an underfunded side project.

The UI isn't great.  It's not the worst, but it isn't great.  They've also had some really good content that I don't think is that hard to find (though harder than other services).  

My biggest peeve about Prime is the lack of a wall between included content and content that must be purchased.  I often look to stream something and see that it's on Prime through my web search results.  Then I click to go to the app, and it's only available for rent or purchase.  With Netflix, HBO, etc...it's either there or not.  Prime is more than video, but perhaps the shipping and media streaming should be separate services.  

Fully agree with everything above.

I haven’t had complaints about the UI of the Amazon app on iOS (iPad), except for the organization/categorization, as you said above.

The Vizio TV app definitely has bad UI design (double press to pause, for starters), but that’s the case with all “smart TV” apps (they’re all sluggish & badly designed garbage), and Amazon’s isn’t even the worst.

Disney+ isn’t even usable. We were forced to connect my girlfriend’s MacBook Pro to the TV just to use the service at all (mine is too old, apparently, to stream 1080p through a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI without heating up and stuttering). And the Disney+ website repeatedly gets forced to reload in Safari, every 10-20 minutes (on Firefox it doesn’t, but there the movie is streamed in lower resolution!!).

“All” smart TV apps are sluggish and poorly designed garbage? You’ve tried them all? Because I know for a fact LG smart tv apps are fantastic, zippy and fully formed. As for Disney+, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that interface. Very user friendly and so easy to find new and old content. But I use their app like most people. 

We had a 4K LG first. It was shit (and I think the screen was defective). We returned it and got the 1080p Vizio. The only improvement was that the screen works.

Buying these TVs was stressful for us because we don’t take the expense lightly and everything we read about the entire market of smart TVs was that they’re garbage. That’s been the experience so far (my parents’ TV is also crap in terms of the software). My GF’s mother has a Sony TV that literally freezes up.

Maybe the Disney+ app works better on yours, but it didn’t let us watch anything without stuttering, pausing, and stopping entirely on the Vizio. The Disney+ website is problematic on both web browsers we use. Safari plays video sharp, but the page interrupts viewing and reloads every 12-20 minutes because of resource usage. On Firefox, it doesn’t reload but the image quality is worse (lower resolution).

No such problem with any other streaming we do (at least three others).

Cable said that Windows "realized that...”

Windows is an intelligence now? I always suspected that the only way humanity would create actual artificial life would be entirely by accident, as an emergent property of monstrous piles of non-deterministic code that no one can manage anymore. You know, like actual life.

...the technology of Windows 10X could be useful in more ways and serve more customers than we originally imagined." As such, Microsoft has decided not to confine the technology to just one subset of customers.”

Wow. What an incredible pile of dren. “How can we make failure sound like a major success?”, asked the executive PR manager to his team of PR spin doctors...

All these statements of how awful Gates was, sold his soul, was kinky, etc... where is any of this coming from?

Sellout? Who thinks he was at some point a wonderful person, motivated by the will to do good? He was known to be an aggressive money-seeking dick from day one. He was also a spoiled & privileged teenager, and has a famous smarmy-ass mug shot from an arrest. Then there’s his jerky performance in front of the senate... The personality has always been there.

On the side of “devil’s advocate”, let’s address the so-called nude parties and relationship stuff:

Are you so afraid of human sexuality & the human body that nudity in someone’s own private space bothers you? You’ve heard that there are entire swaths of people who join nudist groups, right? How many of you guys are usually worshipping wealthy tech bros for “winning” and being able to throw pool parties with “hot chicks” & strippers?

Then there’s a thing called ethical non-monogamy, and things called open marriages. Yes, people consent to these types of arrangements. Such a thing might be relevant to the current marriage issues, or might NOT be. Where’s the info and why is it our business?

I see zero citations of source here on anything. All I see is gossip, which Apple fanatics are happy to engage because Bill Gates is “the original enemy” (well, IBM was THE original enemy, but Gates was the smarmy face of the longer-standing, and more obnoxious rival corporation for decades).

I do not care about the sex lives of consenting adults (assuming it’s informed consent, and that distinction matters). I only care that people engage with the world ethically, and are ALLOWED the agency to live their lives as they wish to, so long as they’re not actively or passively harming others.

If Gates had a relationship with an employee, then there’s a question of conflict of interest in the workplace, and potentially worse things like the employee feeling pressured to engage in said relationship because of the imbalanced power dynamic. That stuff matters. That should be analyzed & discussed, because workplaces should be safe from bullying, sexual abuse, etc., and it’s long past the time for workplaces to ACTUALLY BE safe and for corporations to be held accountable for being anything BUT.

But the other crap brought up here... Is just weird.

williamlondon said:

"the DIA had adopted the belief that the rules didn't apply to commercial data that the government purchases"

Scary to imagine how many *other* laws are broken using this exact form of mental gymnastics.

Exactly. That’s basically the logical fallacy of “special pleading”... something the computer industry (a source of much of this commercial data) has been using to defend itself from being treated like any other industry, for decades.

It’s one of several brands I couldn’t care less about.

i also want to point out that having a designer working on new stuff for “Beats by Dre” is a good indicator that they’re not “by Dre” 😉