Puffin TV Browser

used to use the free data limit and got annoyed when I basically had to pay for more data. I have a few sport streaming subscriptions which don't have their own dedicated app. After messing around with various free android TV browsers and just getting frustrated with the difficulty in getting a decent and consistent stream I came back to puffin and thought I would pay and give it a run. Honestly I should have done this sooner as I'm having no difficulty streaming in high quality through my TV.

I won't completely trash it like many are for the subscription. It is a functional browser, and works with the new Chromecast with Google TV well. It may even be the only one as far as I can find. It can play videos in browser, and generally functional. For that you deserve more than 1 star. However, your price plan does not. Yeah, $10 for a year subscription of anything is negligible, but that doesn't make it sensible. I could do it without thinking, but I have such a hard time supporting that model because its frankly anti-consumer to charge a subscription for your app like this when you're not needing any major server upkeep or anything. I could understand a $10 one time purchase (still would be high mind you) but to expect that regularly just seems like you're trying to exploit the market. It doesn't even have the options for tabs so I can keep multiple pages open. If you had some deep settings like I could customize navigation on the remote and tabs, and if you had some more specialized integrations than QR codes then I might understand more. But it just feels like you're on the edge of exactly as useable as I could expect at the bare minimum past playing videos, and that I should be happy to pay for that. Unfortunately, I'm just not sure I am or that I can recommend anyone else does so either. If you rethink your business model to a one time payment, then call me and we can talk.

I enjoy the app and I don't mind spending a little to use it, but one thing I'd like to see is improved bluetooth device support. I have a little handheld keyboard with a trackpad that I was hoping to use in conjunction with this app, but it seems the native Android TV bluetooth mouse cursor and the mouse cursor in Puffin TV conflict with each other, rendering the native cursor difficult to use with the app. I'm having trouble trying to explain it but if you try to use a bluetooth mouse for yourself you'll probably see what I'm referring to. Hope to see this worked out in an update.