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3.0 out of 5 starsUpdate: somewhat disappointing!
Reviewed in Canada on December 3, 2023
I was looking forward to the Firestick 4K max with 16 gig of memory but was soon disappointed.
I picked the 4K max up on a Black Friday deal from amazon. It arrived in a couple of days. I have other fire sticks and was looking forward to the added memory to avoid constantly cleaning up apps and caches due to the lower memory on my current sticks. Yes this has 16 gig and a new fire iOS 8.1.
This is where the disappointment starts. I began to install some of the apps I have on my existing sticks. Come to find out after several attempts and several versions of certain apps, I see that some apps (that work fine on iOS <8) do not work at all (hang on a blank screen after app starts) or work intermittently (some websites are not accessible) app just hangs up with a partial progress bar.
These apps work perfectly fine on all the other fire sticks I have not running iOS 8.x. So now I have a Firestick with larger storage but can’t run the apps that I have on the other sticks, so I guess I now have even more storage available (ha ha).
I have heard of some other issues with iOS 8 also. I hope amazon puts out an iOS update to correct these issues soon or this stick will be returned and it will be the last fire stick for me as we know where Amazon is headed with this product-it used to be a very good product and a good price on sale, not anymore. UPDATE I received and updated iOS yesterday and things seem to be working as expected. I hope it stays this way.
Unfortunately I wasted many hours between retrying pass, downloading and researching the issues. It was very frustrating.