All Amazon apps are buggy and broken. The Amazon shopping app is awful, a bunch of put together web pages hanging on for dear life.

Amazon optimise for sales and metrics over anything else.

> optimise for sales and metrics

I take you have some insider knowledge... if the app is hanging for dear life, how is that helping optimize the sales pipeline?

It's a mess but the main flows just about function so it makes money.

I learned my lesson to not trust amazon after sagemaker, some of their core services are good and well done.

Curious about the sagemaker experience. What specifically was that broke?

> All Amazon apps are buggy and broken

Baseless conjecture.

> Amazon optimise for sales and metrics over anything else.

But healthy sales requires an app that works.

My information is largely out of date, but Vega is aimed squarely at Fire devices. I expect LG devices largely use the web based Prime Video app that runs on most living room devices.

LG TVs capabilities and performance from an app developer perspective is... not great.

> LG TVs capabilities and performance from an app developer perspective is... not great.

Yet every other app on the TV seems to work just fine, with minimal latency and smooth animations. YouTube, HBO, Jellyfin, Netflix, Rakuten even the Vodafone TV application runs smoother, and it's generally the worst of the apps (sans Prime).

No big complaints with WebOS, and actually I find it more enjoyable as user than Android TV.

It's not the tech for the most part... it's how Amazon is using it. For comparison, Netflix uses React and React-Native as does Facebook and their apps perform pretty well.

> It's not the tech for the most part... it's how Amazon is using it

Yeah, so I mean if Amazon then developers their own framework + OS on top of React Native, how well do we think that'll go, if they're unable to use things well?

If I were to guess, they aren't heavily modifying anything... it's likely a fork from Android and supporting React Native as a primary tool towards developers. I honestly doubt they've actually "done" much of anything other than branding and packaging.

Fire OS was an Android fork. Best I can tell from the stuff I've seen in the news about it, is that Vega OS is not Android at all, and is completely custom (well minus the Linux kernel)

It's so bad on iOS that I unsubscribed.

Vega is FireTV new OS. LG TV run webOS, which is totally different.