double aught said:

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What is QOL?

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Quality of life? Basically as living things grow frail and miserable, we question their quality of life. And therefore must kill them, to put them out of their misery.

I told my sister that once I get dementia and everyone hates me that she should kill me due to my low QOL. She says that won't be a problem.

I'd like to think my quality of life doesn't suffer too much when a streaming app doesn't behave as I'd like.

HossAg said:

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HBO Max app is visually appealing but it errors out on Apple TV a lot and has some annoying QOL issues. Prime app is literally the worst app ever. Netflix is still the easiest to use with the most QOL features, but it can feel cluttered and overwhelming on the home screen.

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Netflix App has no easily accessible way to search by category. Sure, when you scroll down on the Home screen it'll start suggesting random made-up categories that you have to then scroll through laterally one by one in random order...."Gritty War Movies" or "Irreverant Buddy Comedies".

I want a 1 or 2 click way to get to a screen that separates movies into simple categories and lists them alphabetically...."Comedies", "Dramas", etc. Thats the simpliest most straightforward way to search when you don't know exactly what you want to watch, and HBO Max does that.

And don't know about the AppleTV issues (likely because Apple just sucks and intentionally makes it hard for non-Apple products to interface with their Apple products), but its been a long time since HBOMax crapped out on me. And I had no problem downloading and watching a movie on their app just a month ago.

Best thing about the AppleTV app is that it always serves up the next episode for whatever shows you are watching as the first thing you see. Which is about 99% of my use case for them.

Apple TV 4K is by far the best streaming box out there. The crashing isn't exclusive to that device for me. Happens on my iPhone, iPad, and Chromecast, as well.

Edit: The HBO issues will go away for months at a time for me, and then I'll have a month straight where the app just doesn't work well. It's been messing up for me this month.

Good news. Maybe they should merge all the streaming services into 1 big one which we could pay a set monthly fee for and then never have to worry about whete to find the shows we wanted to watch.

Yaroki said:

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When I found out that Discovery+ and HBO Max are going to combine to become a single platform, I thought the price will change. I even addressed discovery plus customer service and asked about it. They said there would be no immediate changes to my subscriptions or billing. Both companies two companies come together as Warner Bros. now.

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well yea, nothing was going to change immediately. There was no way they were going to merge the 2 for the same price as just one. They run the risk of the discovery+ only subscribers not signing up for a $15+ combined app.