HBO Max had to rush out a fix for its Apple TV app this week because it broke remote controls in a version released before the weekend. All because it wanted to use its own video player.
Backing up a bit, you`ve surely seen the palaver this caused.
Being in the UK, I don`t have access to HBO Max, so I`ll have to take The Internet`s word for it when I say that people were upset. Very upset, as it turned out because the HBO Max wouldn`t work with the Siri Remote on their Apple TV – including the new Apple TV 4K. Pausing content, fast-forwarding it, rewinding it. Generally, interacting with it was a problem. As in, it didn`t work.
It turned out that the reason for all this was HBO Max`s new, custom, in-house, very-much-not-Apple`s video player. Something was borked if you`ll pardon the expression. And it needed fixing.
Fair play to the iOS engineers at HBO because they managed to get the update out pretty quickly, no doubt assisted by Apple`s App Store Review team expediting it. T...
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