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On Apple TV, this is by far my largest gripe with streaming apps. Consistently, the worst apps on the platform are those that decide they need a bespoke player
by kitsunesoba 5y ago
On Apple TV, this is by far my largest gripe with streaming apps. Consistently, the worst apps on the platform are those that decide they need a bespoke player UI. YouTube is one of the worst.
The stock video player is perfectly fine, please don’t screw with it excessively!
- marcellus23 5y agoThe YouTube app on Apple TV is an excellent example of how to design a user interface designed specifically to frustrate. Favorite example: you have to press "Menu" to hide the player UI while a video is playing (the native one just requires a tap on the touchpad). It'll also auto-hide after a delay (a longer delay than the native video player, of course), and once it's hidden, pressing "Menu" will instead back you out of the video. So this leads to my favorite dance, which is: 1. Play a video 2. Notice the player UI isn't going away, and the YouTube player UI is super obnoxious and blocks half the screen, and I want to see the video 2. Press "Menu" to hide the player UI 3. Oops! right before I hit "Menu" the player UI auto-hid, and now YouTube took me back to Home (which, bafflingly, does not remember my video position, so if I just resume on the same video, it'll start at the beginning) 4. Now I have to navigate to Library > History (which _does_ remember my position) and find the video, just to keep watching from where I was. Countless other complaints of course. The saddest thing is it just isn't getting better -- I can't remember the last functional update, it must have been years ago.