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If you think other media streaming companies can "innovate" with their interfaces, you're not a cable cutter (I refuse to say cord cutter, my home internet still comes over a cord) who subscribes to Netflix, Hulu, and Directv.

Netflix's interface is horrible on both the Apple TV 4 and modern Rokus. It has a much better interface on the 3rd generation AppleTV where "apps" were limited to just for, all intents and purposed, glorified web apps. They were all running on top of WebKit using a combination of JavaScript and Apple's markup language.




Glorified webapps can't pre-download 50 go of tv shows for my next holidays in the deep country sides. You need file system access for that.


What exactly are you responding to?

I'm responding to the post about "innovation" of apps that not possible if everything goes through the TV app as a central launching pad for videos.




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