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Except that Netflix's iPad app is so slow and clunky it's almost unusable.
by marknutter 16y ago
Except that Netflix's iPad app is so slow and clunky it's almost unusable.
- jmtulloss 16y agoI agree that it's less than ideal, but I wouldn't say unusable. The part that bothers me the most is the interrupted playback issues, which probably has nothing to do with html5.
- marknutter 16y agoThat's why I used the qualifier "almost" ;)
- a1k0n 16y agoThat's the only iPad app my 2-year-old needs help navigating. He likes to watch Thomas and Friends on it, but by the time he's asking for help he's added about 50 things to my DVD queue. This happens almost every day, so whenever I drop a DVD to return in the mail I can't be sure what comes next.
- brianpan 16y agoNetflix's app is the opposite of how Gruber describes a great app: "...it should seem, when you’re using it, that the entire device was meant for it. E.g., a good chess game for the iPhone should make the iPhone itself feel like a chess playing device." [1] The Netflix app feels painfully like using a computer, not a movie-finding-and-watching device. IMO, that's why HTML is the wrong choice, at least for iOS. [1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/03/tablets http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/03/tablets
- kenjackson 16y agoIs the iPad app the same code as the PS3 or a completely different code base?
- cmelbye 16y agoProbably different. The iPad app is basically just a WebView pointing to a touch optimized site that looks basically the same as the desktop site.