I’m really curious what the justification could be for making HBO Max users download a new app instead of just pushing an update.

The new app looks nice, but it also took exactly 30 seconds for me to find a missing feature I consider a critical oversight these days.

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Big catalog though...

Is the new app mandatory? Like the old one doesn't work anymore?

Yes. They disabled the old app.

Yeah hard to make sense of that

What’s the missing feature?

The ability to share a show. How can they miss sharing in a mobile app?

I immediately found an awesome show going behind the scenes with Mark Rober - a very cool person btw and wanted to share it with my brother, and couldn’t.

Huh, that’s a terrible omission 🤦🏻‍♂️

It does seem an awfully big omission for any mobile app these days. I can’t imagine sharing show links do anything but help sign ups.

It’s pretty bad…