You know what I love best about having 8 different streaming services? No, not needing a separate service just to find content.
I love the totally different UI in each service. How do I turn on Closed Captioning? Where are my saved shows? It keeps you sharp, and always learning new things!
I miss TiVO.
@mcfate It would almost be worth having Yet Another Box if it unified the UI.
I used to have a Roku, but it and their support made me mad, and I (finally) got an Apple TV box. I love it, I've never looked back.
I wouldn't say it ENTIRELY unifies the UI, but it puts a lot of the cross-service settings, ones you'd apply the same everywhere, in one place, which is good. I can default to having English subtitles everywhere when they exist.
@mcfate I had Roku too. But, after they EOLed my 1st, then 3rd gen, I gave up on them. Wasn’t going to keep buying new hardware. Also why I didn’t upgrade after my last AppleTV box lost support.
I got the newest, most future-proof Apple TV box for $99, and Amazon delivered it two days before the official release date. I have no cause for complaint.
Every company end-of-lifes stuff, you HAVE to or at some point you'd have to stop making improvements.
Apple's better at supporting their hardware than ANYONE.
Apple only just stopped supporting my seven-year-old first-generation iPhone SE within the past few months.
Still works fine, I just don't get system updates.
My gripe with Roku was more involved. For some reason, on Disney+, the narration FOR THE BLIND was constantly on, for absolutely no explicable reason, and couldn't be turned off.
Their support was useless, told me to talk to Disney, I told them to talk to the hand, I was gonna talk to Apple.
@mcfate I read a lot of complaints about the new Rokus when I was shopping for a new streaming device 2 years ago. Settled on a Firestick solely because they were so cheap during an Amazon device sale. Device has been solid, and tiny too.
@mcfate Apple’s great about longer EOL, and often crazy good tradeups.
My 4k Firesticks were about $30 though, and the Google one came with 6 months of Netflix, so was effectively free. Apps work the same between the two. Just wish they each didn’t reinvent the UI.
Yeah, I absolutely refuse to encourage the Goog in any way at all, no matter how slight.
@kay_dub
ProTip: if you run 'em all through an Apple TV box, it makes a lot of the interfaces more consistent.