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I've been working with this hardware for a month. I have not been impressed. The GTV interface itself isn't bad. The Google TV team have really been working the
by geuis 16y ago
I've been working with this hardware for a month. I have not been impressed. The GTV interface itself isn't bad. The Google TV team have really been working their asses off for the last few weeks cleaning stuff up and fixing bugs.
Some of the downsides are basically around performance in the browser. The hardware in question (pictured in the article) has only about 2-3x the javascript performance of an iPhone 4. CSS transitions and animations work pretty well. The other big downside is the keyboard. Its a cheap plasticy thing thats hard to type on and feels like it was made for $4.
I am anxiously waiting for different companies to start making some very performant hardware for it. I think the OS has a lot of capabilities, but I can't recommend getting this particular hardware.
- Someone 16y agoWhat do you think makes it problematic that it has "only 2-3x the javascript performance of an iPhone 4"? I could see problems if its 2D or 3D graphics were slow, but Javascript? Are you thinking of specific sites that require lots of it?
- geuis 16y agoI have been developing a GTV-specific webapp for it. I have not seen any native apps yet, other than Chrome itself and one for Amazon. It's problematic because webapps are meant to be a big part of the GTV ecosystem. I had to greatly cut back on many several features of our app because of performance hits with js. My 2-3x number comes running sunspider on my iPhone and the GTV hardware simultaneously. In some instances while browsing the same sites, it felt that my phone was faster. Another issue I completely forgot to mention is the abysmal performance of Flash. Yeah, GTV supports it. The Flash runtime is, typically, the worst part of the user experience yet again.