‘The Big Picture’ App for iPad and iPhone
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.
