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I'm wondering if this is what they themselves use for developing the Prime Video app? At least on LG, it's by far the slowest, laggiest and most broken app our

by diggan 1y ago

I'm wondering if this is what they themselves use for developing the Prime Video app? At least on LG, it's by far the slowest, laggiest and most broken app our family sometimes use.

drcongo 1y ago
It's so bad on iOS that I unsubscribed.
benbristow 1y ago
All Amazon apps are buggy and broken. The Amazon shopping app is awful, a bunch of put together web pages hanging on for dear life. Amazon optimise for sales and metrics over anything else.
- ignoramous 1y ago
  > optimise for sales and metrics I take you have some insider knowledge... if the app is hanging for dear life, how is that helping optimize the sales pipeline?
  - benbristow 1y ago
    It's a mess but the main flows just about function so it makes money.
- appleaday1 1y ago
  I learned my lesson to not trust amazon after sagemaker, some of their core services are good and well done.
  - 2dvisio 1y ago
    Curious about the sagemaker experience. What specifically was that broke?
- ranger_danger 1y ago
  > All Amazon apps are buggy and broken Baseless conjecture. > Amazon optimise for sales and metrics over anything else. But healthy sales requires an app that works.
eysquared 1y ago
My information is largely out of date, but Vega is aimed squarely at Fire devices. I expect LG devices largely use the web based Prime Video app that runs on most living room devices. LG TVs capabilities and performance from an app developer perspective is... not great.
- diggan 1y ago
  > LG TVs capabilities and performance from an app developer perspective is... not great. Yet every other app on the TV seems to work just fine, with minimal latency and smooth animations. YouTube, HBO, Jellyfin, Netflix, Rakuten even the Vodafone TV application runs smoother, and it's generally the worst of the apps (sans Prime).
- pjmlp 1y ago
  No big complaints with WebOS, and actually I find it more enjoyable as user than Android TV.
tracker1 1y ago
It's not the tech for the most part... it's how Amazon is using it. For comparison, Netflix uses React and React-Native as does Facebook and their apps perform pretty well.
- diggan 1y ago
  > It's not the tech for the most part... it's how Amazon is using it Yeah, so I mean if Amazon then developers their own framework + OS on top of React Native, how well do we think that'll go, if they're unable to use things well?
  - tracker1 1y ago
    If I were to guess, they aren't heavily modifying anything... it's likely a fork from Android and supporting React Native as a primary tool towards developers. I honestly doubt they've actually "done" much of anything other than branding and packaging.
    - rstat1 1y ago
      Fire OS was an Android fork. Best I can tell from the stuff I've seen in the news about it, is that Vega OS is not Android at all, and is completely custom (well minus the Linux kernel)
phantomathkg 1y ago
Vega is FireTV new OS. LG TV run webOS, which is totally different.

by diggan 1y ago

I'm wondering if this is what they themselves use for developing the Prime Video app? At least on LG, it's by far the slowest, laggiest and most broken app our family sometimes use.

drcongo 1y ago

It's so bad on iOS that I unsubscribed.

benbristow 1y ago

All Amazon apps are buggy and broken. The Amazon shopping app is awful, a bunch of put together web pages hanging on for dear life. Amazon optimise for sales and metrics over anything else.

ignoramous 1y ago
> optimise for sales and metrics I take you have some insider knowledge... if the app is hanging for dear life, how is that helping optimize the sales pipeline?
- benbristow 1y ago
  It's a mess but the main flows just about function so it makes money.
appleaday1 1y ago
I learned my lesson to not trust amazon after sagemaker, some of their core services are good and well done.
- 2dvisio 1y ago
  Curious about the sagemaker experience. What specifically was that broke?
ranger_danger 1y ago
> All Amazon apps are buggy and broken Baseless conjecture. > Amazon optimise for sales and metrics over anything else. But healthy sales requires an app that works.

eysquared 1y ago

My information is largely out of date, but Vega is aimed squarely at Fire devices. I expect LG devices largely use the web based Prime Video app that runs on most living room devices. LG TVs capabilities and performance from an app developer perspective is... not great.

diggan 1y ago
> LG TVs capabilities and performance from an app developer perspective is... not great. Yet every other app on the TV seems to work just fine, with minimal latency and smooth animations. YouTube, HBO, Jellyfin, Netflix, Rakuten even the Vodafone TV application runs smoother, and it's generally the worst of the apps (sans Prime).
pjmlp 1y ago
No big complaints with WebOS, and actually I find it more enjoyable as user than Android TV.

tracker1 1y ago

It's not the tech for the most part... it's how Amazon is using it. For comparison, Netflix uses React and React-Native as does Facebook and their apps perform pretty well.

diggan 1y ago
> It's not the tech for the most part... it's how Amazon is using it Yeah, so I mean if Amazon then developers their own framework + OS on top of React Native, how well do we think that'll go, if they're unable to use things well?
- tracker1 1y ago
  If I were to guess, they aren't heavily modifying anything... it's likely a fork from Android and supporting React Native as a primary tool towards developers. I honestly doubt they've actually "done" much of anything other than branding and packaging.
  - rstat1 1y ago
    Fire OS was an Android fork. Best I can tell from the stuff I've seen in the news about it, is that Vega OS is not Android at all, and is completely custom (well minus the Linux kernel)

phantomathkg 1y ago

Vega is FireTV new OS. LG TV run webOS, which is totally different.