The iPhone has plenty of great applications but for whatever reason whenever one comes out -- like the new TiVoRemote pictured above -- that will help us control our home theater
it looks as bad as you can imagine. Sure function is more important than form, but most of these are ridiculous. It's bad enough that the developers think you want to use a touch screen to control something like a directional pad -- imagine looking up to see the menu on the screen and then down to look at the remote 25 times -- but at least they could make it look cool. It's not that we hate all of 'em as the Apple Remote for the Apple TV and iTunes is really slick, but with all the possibilities when it comes to gestures and the iPhone's accelerometer, we'd think there'd be a decent solution by now.
posted Jan 16th 2009 2:59PM
Because the Iphone is so limited.. Its barely even a smartphone, but its more powerful than most smartphones out.. Apple just plain wont let you do much with it, it doesnt have any buttons, and the app store (crapp store) cuts legitimate programs for almost no reason... So things like skyfire, wmwifi router, the core pocket media player (with youtube play and download) will most likely never happen.. If apple doesnt want its "smartphone" to have cut and paste why would you waste money on developing an innovative app.. I wouldnt.. So we have iFart and fake mario kart games... How is a voice recorder a top ten business app.. But on the other hand apple can be so restrictive because WM is so outdated.. If wm7 is anything close to android or web os in being user friendly, apple WILL have to give up more..
It looks like someone made that in HyperCard
Why are most iPhone remote apps so janky?
Because it's an Apple product?
Make that "Why are most remote apps so janky?" It seems like the issue is consistent across WinMo, iPhone, and S60. :/
This other one looks and works way better:
http://code.google.com/p/tivoremote/
Is it really any wonder? Apple prides themselves on having a clientele who, before switching to OSX, were unable visit a website in Internet Explorer without first typing the address in MyWebSearch, HotBar, and 15 other adware toolbars. ( http://video.linux-noob.com/screenshots/ie7/iemess2.jpg ) (Yea, it's totally Microsoft's fault that these fraking idiots press "OK" to every pop-up message that comes on their screen)
My point: Because these people are using Apple's software, they probably lack the intelligence to apply logic necessary to make a practical, efficient, and functional program.
Excuse my language, but how the hell is this news?
Maybe because the same cheezy developers who ran out of opportunity with Palm and/or WinMo have gravitated to an easy opportunity? Those who have developed _robust_ apps for WinMo ARE developing their apps for the iPhone, but that takes much more time and resources than the quick-n-nasty stuff casual observers hear about.
The iphone hw/sw is not what is limiting this. It took me a couple days of programming to put together a rich, bi-directional Remote to control my Denon AVR via Wifi. The trick is just to stop thinking in 'buttons' and explore more intuitive ways to get things done. For example the iPhone's 'picker' control to set/show input source and volume. There is not really a limit on what can be done, just time and creativity! I'm new to Mac/iPhone but am so far impressed with the possibilities apple hw/sw has to offer.