Im sure the Plex team appreciates your compliments. Im sure they’d love Kodaks billion in revenue last year, even more Xerox’s 6billion in revenue.
That’s kind of unfair to Vista IMHO. When it came out average PCs were not powerful to run it well and hardware manufactures were not ready with driver support but after some time hardware caught up, multiple gigs of RAM and 3D accelerated video cards became commonplace, a few bugs were fixed, driver support improved and it became a solid operating system. The enormously popular Windows 7 was really just Vista with a few tweaks and some polish, most would be hard pressed to tell one from the other without opening the Start menu or control panel to look at the version. I knew people that happily ran Vista quite a few years mostly trouble free.
The Plex client on the other hand is just broken by design, the entire user interface is a huge step back, fixing it is not a matter of fixing a few bugs.
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One annoying aspect of trying to make the interface uniform across devices is the new interface doesn’t play to any strengths of the individual platforms (which in some cases is why people pick one device over another).
This was exactly the issue that made Windows 8 such an unusable mess. The metro/modern/whatever experience was designed to be uniform across PCs and mobile devices and the result for traditional desktop/laptop users was awful. I’m not an Apple fanboy but one thing that Apple has generally gotten right is giving their platforms a consistent look & feel without trying to make them identical. MacOS and iOS look clearly related but each is tailored to the use cases they are intended for.
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They ignored any and all feedback. That’s how.
Because, as you mention, they are fundamentally different systems, which we interact with and control in very different ways. What works for a touch screen does not work for a remote control or mouse, particularly (point in case).
I think its cause mobile uses the top, because its a smaller screen. Anything that has a larger and wider screen utilizes side menu, Discord, facebook, reddit…. Mobile has menus on top, but PC and Browser menus all remain on the side… I still dont get why it has to be one and not the other. It cant be that hard to allow us to choose, its just a graphical representation, not new code…
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Sorry, I live in Rochester NY, where they were both founded and were MUCH bigger 50, even 30 years ago, and are now little guys in comparison, have sold off their named towers, etc. I used the examples that came first to mind.
