As disseminated by Cord Cutters News, the new Roku 7.6 OS update resolves at least one “spam button” annoyance. When you accidentally sit on your Roku remote or your toddler grabs it, you won’t necessarily be dumped into a paid partner’s streaming app. Instead, while video is playing, you’ll be offered up a confirmation screen (as shown above, which doesn’t seem to time out) before making the leap. Sadly, Roku still doesn’t provide the ability to remap their growing list of rotating affiliates… to regain valuable real estate from a variety of shuttered services, like Rdio and Target Ticket (as shown below). While Roku remains a compelling player in this space many of their recent product decisions are driven by advertising and, by comparison, the similarly priced Fire TV offers a superior, clutter-free remote (that obviously pitches Amazon services via the on-screen interface).
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Might have spoken too soon... Amazon's new Fire TV "television" brings its own spam buttons. Although you'll probably want them. http://amzn.to/2rtLfeB
Roku interface is just so much easier though Dave
Fire has so many confusing submenus and looks like it was designed by an engineer.
It does have simplicity going for it... but that also comes across in many (still) simplistic apps. We may also have reached a tipping point, where Fire TV may be getting more, earlier updates. For example DirecTV Now is on Fire TV, but not on Roku, and PS Vue hit Fire TV first. Amazon Music on Roku is pretty bad, but that could be incentive to go Fire TV. If it weren't for nowhere man, I'd probably have dropped Roku by now.