why are three party app's so slow with COX remote

hbo/hbo max, peacock, tubi, netflix all come up fine for me with my 500 ultimate package.

It's slow because Contour is not a good streamer.

Cox needed to stop subscribers from "cutting-the-cord" so instead of trying to beat the enormously-popular online services (streaming), Cox join them by putting steaming apps on their cable-boxes as well as marketing Internet-connect cable-boxes.  It's just gimmickry.

If you want to stream like a pro, get a device actually designed to stream:  better chipsets, better OS, better decoding, better support, freedom to choose apps...better remotes.

[I remember Sea Monkeys!]