punkassjim

(via tj)

1. Sign up for Hulu Plus at $10/month.
2. Get cozy with your iPad, all set to watch the Louies you’ve had in your Hulu queue for the past couple weeks.
3. Discover that the Hulu Plus app has different content from hulu.com.
4. That’s right: not more content. Different content.
5. In particular, it doesn’t have Louie.
6. Or anything else that was in your queue, or much of anything current that’s worth watching, really.
7. Cancel Hulu Plus.

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…if I’m going to watch your shows online — which clearly doesn’t bother you since Hulu is able to exist at all — if I’m going to watch them and, more importantly, give my affluent, highly marketable attention to your ads — your obnoxious, intrusive, poorly-targeted ads — what fucking business is it of yours which device I choose to do that with?

Sirs: you are already shitting in my soup. Must you take away the spoon?

I’m pretty glad I still haven’t put any real time or attention into Hulu. It seemed misguided from the start, and doesn’t seem to be getting any better. It’s a service that has plenty of “ooo shiny,” and almost no strong backbone.

(via nickdouglas)

cameronmoll:

The two elements that have made The Big Picture a success over other photoblogs are the supersized photos and the inline placement of those photos, forgoing the traditional paginated view (which usually makes advertisers happier). With the iPad app, you get big photos but you lose the inline placement and the ability to quickly scan through all images. Instead, you have to swipe to the next photo — a very conventional interaction on iPad, but an interaction that counters what has made The Big Picture such a hit.

At the very least, I’d like to see an option that allows me to see all of the photos at once, e.g. grid/thumbnail view .

There’s a reason Mobile Safari doesn’t load all images on a single Big Picture post: It can’t. The images are much too large and numerous to all fit in the memory allotted to any one app. I still think the iPad can get better at caching data and pushing all those pixels around, but there are some limitations which disallow flexibility. At least they finally got this app published. Big Picture on iPad Safari has been broken the whole time.