
The point is that they're using an off-the-shelf icon kit with some native dialogue forwarding. There are stories of him calling Google execs because he didn’t like the colour on one of their buttons. (I hate to be “that guy”, but seriously - if Steve Jobs was still around, he wouldn’t have accepted this. YouTube is my primary source of video content - I can’t remember the last time I watched an actual TV show. 20 minutes later, with the Apple TV screensaver now running, the video randomly starts playing again.


When you start watching a video, the UI is almost completely unresponsive for the first 5 seconds exactly.Scroll down a playlist, and it stops after 10 or so videos, hangs, then loses your scroll position. It seems to be built with Cobalt, so it’s basically HTML5, pretending to be a native app.Ī short list of flaws which have infuriated me for months: I can’t believe either Apple or Google think it’s acceptable - it must be one of the most-used apps on tvOS, and is easily the worst I’ve ever come across.

The YouTube app on Apple TV is absolutely atrocious.
