A few of us in our household are regular users of catch-up TV apps mainly through our Apple TV. Channel 9 were the last to come to the party with an app & I really don’t get what they’ve done.
The app is great, works just fine but why in this day & age of hacked accounts, stolen passwords etc etc is the 9Now app the only one, for any TV station in Australia, that requires you to create an account & surrender personal details or, even worse, log-in via FaceBook & therefore give the app various permissions?
There is absolutely no need for it whatsoever.
If it wasn’t for the fact that it’s the only way to easily access a few programmes I would in-principle be deleting the app from all our iDevices & our Apple TV.
What’s then worse is that virtually every time you open the app it wants you to log-in & pair devices.
And I should add that you can’t even use the Apple TV app without opening an account on another device & then pairing the device with the Apple TV.
I would really love to know how 9 see this as a useful feature or creating a quality user experience. All it does is frustrate me and make me cranky & resentful! Don’t know about you guys but I really have enough junk passwords in my brain already without adding more for no explicable reason.
Apologies. Just venting but I think many of you will relate.