Roku slow to respond when navigating channel
I have a Roku3 and have been experiencing similar issues. Not only was the Roku itself laggy, but the lag affected apps differently. YouTube was by far the worst affected, lagging to the point of bei...
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Choboticus You are faulting Roku for something out of their control. Only the app provider can determine how they will support older devices. In this case, Google has decided they are going to code for the newest devices, and they don't really seem to care if older devices won't work well with the refreshed app. What they should do is tag their updated app versions to only download on the newer devices, and let the older devices remain on the older app that still works well. But Roku can't force them to do it, so your complaint is specific to Google.
atc98092Nonsense. Roku can impose standards on app developers just like Google does on their own app store. By not doing so, Roku is risking what infamously happened to Atari in the '80s: so many terrible third-party products that it killed Atari's own reputation. They've already ruined their reputation with me. As it stands right now, I would never consider buying another Roku.
They do impose standards, but those standards do not require supporting Roku devices that are close to or more than ten years old. You have a Roku 3 (unknown model number). That means your device is either nine or eleven years old (there are two different versions of the Roku 3). Lots of electronic devices that old simply no longer work, or they are incapable of supporting some of what might be available for that device.
The Roku 3 was a great player when it came out, but technology has passed it by. I have a Roku 2 XS that hasn't been out of the drawer for several years. It was unusable for YouTube when it was only about 5 years old, and I simply replaced it with a newer model.
The CPU in my PC is also 12 years old. The rest of the computer is even older. It does everything I need a computer to do. More to the point, it still does everything it did when it was new, just as quickly as it did when it was new. If some new software won't run well on it, I simply don't use it.
I don't care if my Roku doesn't support new features. I just want it to work exactly the way it did when I bought it. That is not too much to ask. I'm not a Roku app developer, but I used to develop Android apps professionally, so I have a general idea of what kinds of tools app stores provide for developers to target different devices. If app developers want to release new software with higher hardware requirements, that's fine. Just don't push it to my device.
