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Netflix Testing Major Apple TV App Redesign

"Members" hahaha. Subscribers. Who are getting smarter and subscribing and binging and then pausing to save money.

Saying members sounds designed to make it feel like a club - and you wont want to leave will you? ;)
 
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Amazon Prime is so slow to load and use compared to Netflix which is usually almost instantaneous - until they decide to change all the shows in the order you got used to and you have to hunt around or Search...
 
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TechnoTiger3000 said:
I find it perplexing how prevalent the "one size fits all" approach has become in technology nowadays.

While some may appreciate a different thumbnail each day or enjoy the pop-up TikTok experience, personally, I don't find them appealing at all.

Moreover, I firmly believe that algorithm-based recommendations should be made optional by law. I'm pleased to see my EU government taking steps in that direction.
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100% agree. Music streaming services are the same. They’re not designed for me, and yet there is no alternative that I can switch to as there are only three choices.

The maddening thing is that these apps could easily be updated to be far more customisable, but the tech companies don’t want to scare off less technically minded users by presenting them with a deep set of options, so they design for the lowest common denominator (pop fans).
 
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bozzykid said:
Netflix does use the native tvOS player.
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Which is great because features like "what did he say?" and standardized timeline scrubbing and quick access to sound and subtitle settings work as intended. Then when you go over to Disney+ it all goes out the window. I never understand why all these apps feel compelled to force their own garbage-y video players on Apple TV users. I suppose it's to "unify" the UI across platforms but I hate it.
 
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I hope they fix their choices for subtitles, now only 3, too small font, large font and too large, and a choice of colors especially for the background, rather than a block of solid bar too distracting. TUBI, Apple, Disney, Hulu, FreeVee and Prime have these.
 
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Takeo said:
One of the nicest things about cancelling my Netflix subscription two years ago was that I no longer had to use multiple apps to find things to watch. All the other subscriptions I kept integrate with the TV app and Up Next list.
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This.

Although I still have Netflix its beyond infuriating why they steadfastly refuse to integrate like literally all the other content providers on the platform.

If it's through some weird supposition that it stops people on AppleTVs going into the Netflix app to discover new content... nonsense. It doesnt affect the others in this way and yet it will do nothing but aid discovery when using AppleTV search to look for things.
 
Say what your will but why does no streaming app beside Netflix have a nice smooth scrubber that works as it should? Do they just own the patent on that and no one can copy it?
 
I *hate* expanding tiles. Amazon Video added them, and they make it incredibly frustrating to navigate through their content.

Netflix's interface is far from ideal, but it's actually pretty good at letting users swipe through lots of potential viewing options. Netflix seems to think we don't want to do this, but I think people generally like doing that. What it could do better is categorizing options (the endless rows don't really suggest where we should be looking) and providing more descriptive ways of finding things, such as filters.
 
Just make the content show up in searches platform wide. That’s the one thing Netflix absolutely needs to do.
 
Joining the “why still no up next list” and “why shuffling **** around for kicks and giggles” enraged crowd.

It boggles me how several billion dollars companies insist on going the least efficient route, adding ever more friction to the end user, focusing on useless things, running around like headless chickens all the time.

This is the ‘mistake economy’ times we live in, where the costs of fixing bad outcomes or mistakes due to ‘trying to fix/enhance what wasn’t broken’ is so much higher than taking the time to do it properly the first time, likely in the name of greed or an addiction to take shortcuts.

Falling planes, auto-crashing cars, cracking bridges, failing gadgets on first use… horrible UX like all of YouTube, auto expanding tiles, rushed “you play next now in 3s you mf’er, can’t let you take a break now”, appalling navigation, etc concurs.

But why the angst, why are you so shaken by it?
And you would be right, I stopped paying for Netflix years ago and just get shared very rarely when someone wants me to take a look at something… but I even then I just pass the offer most times. (Side note: sharing still worked on my side, likely because it’s such a low low use frequency).

Will just calm down and watch the whole thing decline with popcorns instead.
 
redbeard331 said:
Amazon prime already has the expanding tiles.
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Which are fu**cking awful. Prime might be the worst UI of the streaming apps.

I find it harder to find things in Prime than any of the others I have.

I do wish Netflix would integrate with Apple TV like all my others do. I find my self using ATV as the hub more and more.
 
Sarcastro said:
This is objectively worse - there are very few UI paradigms that are more frustrating and annoying than the "square thumbnail that expands after stopping on it for more than a second" design.
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Literally... Amazon Prime does it and their app is regarded as probably one of the worst streaming UI out there... let's just copy that...
 
ignatius345 said:
I suppose it's to "unify" the UI across platforms but I hate it.
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It makes more sense to me to unify the UI within a platform rather than across platforms. Maybe my situation is not the norm though, but I'm all Apple TV (and like mostly all Apple) so I'd rather these things functions the same way from one app to the next. Doesn't mean the UI has to be the same, but scrubbing, scrolling direction, what the buttons on the remote do, etc. would feel better if they all did were consistant from one app to the next.
 
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Mrkevinfinnerty said:
Up next fans assemble

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lol, is that best image example. She ends up killing everyone or severely wounding them. Unless she represents the fans.
 
wbeasley said:
Amazon Prime is so slow to load and use compared to Netflix which is usually almost instantaneous - until they decide to change all the shows in the order you got used to and you have to hunt around or Search...
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My "favorite" (with the most insulting scare-quotes possible) feature of Netflix is how you'll be browsing and find something to add to your favorites, which triggers the re-sorting madness so not only do you get dumped back to the top of the list instead of continuing on from where you were, the entire list has been re-sorted so the point you were at often doesn't even exist anymore.

I'm pretty sure sometimes when "the algorithm" was getting creative with a category, the entire category you were browsing through vanishes from view entirely--I remember once getting some interestingly specific category, which then disappeared and I don't think I ever figured out how to find it again on the AppleTV app.
 
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