What does this mean for custom soundtracks running on either Pandora or the "Simple Music Player" app? Or for Twitch streaming?
Ooh that actually looks pretty sharp.We kinda knew this from MajorNelson over last few days but I guess it's reconfirmed?
Still there but as an overlay
EDIT: Or just look at this picture from Xbox Wire:
Literally anything from the article
Xbox Platform head Mike Ybarra revealed the change on Twitter yesterday, noting that we replaced Snap to improve multitasking, reduce memory use, improve overall speed, and free up resources going forward for bigger things.
About fucking time they actually try and improve the piece of shit UI.
It's a clunky, unintuitive mess in its current state.
Good on them.
What? Why?!
"Xbox snap achievements" is something I yell at my Kinect all the time!
edit: actually read the article. If this helps speed up things, and they've already planned some sort of picture-in-picture-type replacement, then I suppose it's all well and good, I guess...
About fucking time they actually try and improve the piece of shit UI.
It's a clunky, unintuitive mess in its current state.
Good on them.
I used to use the shit out of snap when the xb1 first launched. It was perfect for playing games and watching football at the same time. In fact, it was one of the main reasons I wanted an xb1 over a ps4.
I dont use the feature much anymore, but if they are taking away features, it better make noticeable improvements.
If this can fix the horrible sluggish nature of the dashboard, then maybe its worth it. But if I dont see any practical improvements and youre just taking things away from me, then I think its the wrong move.
This is a lame move.
If it means they can dedicate more resources to letting games run better on the OG X1, then I guess it's ok, but I loved the idea of snap, and we just finally got Background music working.
It was flawed, but still cool. I will be sad to see it go.
I think this is it. So we can hopefully just overlay a small video feed on the screen rather than a full app down the side
What does this mean for custom soundtracks running on either Pandora or the "Simple Music Player" app? Or for Twitch streaming?
Why not simply allow people to turn it off and on instead of removing it?
Picture in picture is replacing it. Basically almost same thing
I'll be disappointed I can't play a game and snap TV at the same time anymore