This looks like the Apple TV interface for people who don't live in the Apple device ecosystem.
And probably pay less as well as get casting feature on non-Apple devices.
Disc: Googler.
Chromecast with Google TV
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#52On a side note, anyone else get janky behavior trying to scroll on the homepage here? It feels like a janky/simpler version of what you see for the Apple product pages.
Yeah, the initial scrolling experience was insufferable. I had to resort to using pagedown and eventually just grabbing the tiny scrollbar instead of my mouse scrollwheel to make any sort of useful progress, and even then it was made difficult by absurdly "long" animations and visuals instead of actual information. The thing that really got my goat is how areas shifted in contrast for entire pages for single sentences of text.
It feels like there were maybe two to three paragraphs of text total on that page. I want to read the text. I do not want flying, fading out images all over the place.
This low-information-density design trend is an incredibly user-unfriendly experience for desktop users.
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#53I still have the Sony TV with built in Google TV, which is a brick now, because I can't update it anymore and google has abandoned it. Not doing the same mistake again.
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#55Looks great, been waiting to get out of the roku world for too long.
Curious what the shortcomings of Roku are for you? I'm not a heavy user but my ultra has been great.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
don't know about google tv, but chromecast is wildly successful.
Is product success a useful metric for whether or not Google cancel services?
>> Is product success a useful metric for whether or not Google cancel services?
Yes. Unsuccessful products get cancelled.
The successful services get to stay but the customers get hit with "insane price hikes":
https://www.geoawesomeness.com/developers-up-in-arms-over-go...
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#57IMO, Apple TV has been one of the strengths of the iOS ecosystem over Android. Chromecast has a lot of good integrations, but the dongle’s lack of a standalone UI with independent controls made it awkward for communal living room use. Looks like this could be a strong competitor and the price greatly undercuts Apple. I’m excited to try it out.
With part of the cost of anything Google related is your privacy....
I don't understand why this comment was downvoted. This is priced the way it is because the profit isn't in the hardware, it's in the viewer data. It's very cheap only if you set the value of your privacy to some very low number.
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#58The Netflix offer is difficult to ignore if you already have the Netflix standard plan, it essentially makes this device cost only $12.05 ($12.99 * 6 = 77.94 - $89.99).
That kind of offer isn't itself surprising, but it being available to existing Netflix subscribers is unusual.
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#59Looks great, been waiting to get out of the roku world for too long.
Curious what the shortcomings of Roku are for you? I'm not a heavy user but my ultra has been great.
Also curious, I love my Roku. The fact the remote has navigation buttons and has a headphone jack when others are sleeping is amazing.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is Netflix an “enemy” of Apple? Apple has made sure Netflix runs well on all of their devices since the first iPad.
If not an "enemy", a competitor. Apple has Apple TV, Google has YouTube Originals of course but I see Google partnering with Netflix much more than I see Apple doing so
Google is also very bad at making its different divisions work together.
Which is pretty neat when you work on a competing product (and way better than having them use their dominant position to help prop up a new product).
I worked on a music streaming service for a long time. We had a stellar relationship with Google.
It felt a bit weird that they did not push Play Music more .. in my opinion it was at one time a great music service. Still, we did not complain.
Apple on the other end sees everything iTunes related as mission critical and working with them was a nightmare.
So, not surprised to see AndroidTV (which afaik has no relationship with youtube people) partnering with netflix.