I think the correct title is "7 Reasons Why I Hate Google AndroidTV"
Number 1-5 are AndroidTV flaws (the remote was about navigating Chrome). Number 7 wasnt a criticism but rather a conclusion that will lead to disappointment when writer figures out it's the OS he hates.
Number 6 was the single complaint towards the Mi Box.
That writer should probably learn more about products before writing about them.
So you don't waste time clicking it:
1 You are stuck with the default launcher
2 The app store has limited apps
3 Sideloading apps is not that easy
4 The remote is great … sort of [hard to navigate webpages]
5 Adding a mouse is a painful experience [In MM you can't use onscreen keyboard at same time]
6 Limited memory, limited ports, limited WiFi [had poor wifi signal at 70%]
7 I hate that I need to sell Xiaomi MiBox and get a better device [How many will he buy until it dawns on him that his problems are OS specific?]
"Since it has only 8GB of Ram..." Wow and here I thought that nvidia shield with it's 3gb of ram was enough, but clearly 8gb is not enough nowadays so 3gb will make nvidia shield useless toy. /s
How shallow and narrow-minded. Waste of electrons.
If you're willing to sideload apps, get F-Droid and Yalp app stores to make things easier on yourself. You can set your box to pretend to be another device in the Yalp store, no more limitations. Just don't sign in with your main account, as it's technically against TOS.
Setting up an FTP server on the box is great too, really helps for those apps you need to sideload.
Just to be serious for a change. This guy in the article clearly has missed the point of Android tv all together. Yes I see the point how in a way those Chinese boxes with full android play store might seem more appealing than only having very limited amount of apps in the android tv app store.
However unless you somehow have a TV that has touchscreen capabilities and you somehow are able to connect it into the box with the touch inputs. Those apps are not going to be doing much for you.
However all of the android tv app in store are optimized for remote control inputs, thus making them much better when you use them in the couch.
However as they stated in the article android tv boxes are able to get apps not in the store as well by sideloading them. However unlike in the article I don't think it is that hard except maybe for the first app (chrome/firefox). After you have installed your browser of choice, then you only need to browse where that apk file is and then browser is more than enough for downloading and opening the file for installation.
So there is no need to install es-file explorer or even see the file system just to get started in the art of sideloading.
Some really stupid reasons there. That's just the way Android TV works for every box.