Poor macos, in every way

[BigE]

if Sky insist on making you use an app the least they could do is actually provide a working solution. First up the installation is buggy. The streaming looks like its a broadcast from 1980s the quality is horrendous (and I'm comparing that with Netflix, Amazon Prime, DisneyPlus, YouTube and others). Then to top it off the ads are several minutes at a time, then you get a few minutes of video if you are lucky. When the app glitches it starts all over with the ads. If you try skipping forward it triggers ads. You try watching it, it triggers ads. Had it do 5 sets of ads in a row the other day before finally being able to watch the program, only to find out it was the end of the last episode and kicked me back to browse....guess what happens next, yep more ads. Then the cherry on top, it plays the same same advert every time over and over, like who is ever going to act on an advert when its played over and over that's just ripping of the advertisers too. And all this on a paid for service, which is not cheap compared to other options.

[BigE]

The app also just crashes randomly no warning, and back to the ads.

Why cant it remember where you watched up to in a program? Sometimes it does but most of the time it doesnt. Why can it not remember this across devices, that has definitely never happened. All basic things other services manage.

[TimmyBGood]

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@BigE wrote:

And all this on a paid for service, which is not cheap compared to other options.

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On the contrary, Go is a 'free' add-on to a hardware subscription.  

[TimmyBGood]

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@BigE wrote:

All basic things other services manage.

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As above.  Go is not a competitor to 'other services' : it's an legacy sideline to an entirely different and much older business model based on dedicated reception hardware.

Yes, it should undoubtedly be better, but realistically it's long been a neglected offshoot of the actual Sky (and now Comcast) money-making products.

[TimmyBGood]

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@BigE wrote:

 and I'm comparing that with Netflix, Amazon Prime, DisneyPlus, YouTube and others

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Probably worth noting that those are worldwide streaming giants with in-app audiences of hundreds of millions (billions in the case of YouTube).  Sky is a much longer established subscription hardware television platform in six (soon to be three) European countries which happens to also offer an app option that has a simultaneous user-base of some tens of thousands.

As I've suggested in this forum before, the most likely future is that Go (which pre-dates the 2018 takeover) will be dropped entirely, perhaps at the same time as satellite broadcast ceases, and be replaced with a rebadged Comcast streaming app.