iPad Flash and hoping Steve Jobs wins
May 6, 2010This blog is online at markdhansell.wordpress.com
Missed Lost this week. Not really upset as I assumed that the ABC app on the iPad would allow me to watch it when I wanted – which would be as soon as possible as I am a Lost fanatic at least until the end of the month. So Wednesday night I took the iPad out to the backyard (still plenty of WiFi signal) with the wireless headphones and watch the episode “The Candidate”. If you are a Lostie you know this is getting really interesting, but that’s not the point of this post. Watching Lost or any ABC show on the iPad with the ABC App is an absolute delight. No stuttering no “buffering” just minimal commercials (all female focused, sort of a shock) and pause and rewind. It was great – ABC hit a home run with this app, and I might even pay for it or some small fee to watch a show like this. (Certainly I could have watched twice as many commercials without any pain.).
Of course then it’s the bad news. No next week promo, no tease for the next episode – for that it’s off to ABC.com. And after 30 minutes of waiting loading and horsing around, I saw nothing. Nothing of Lost that is… I did watch 8 Priceline commercials – actually 2 commercials 4 times each. On my desktop, the Flash player ABC uses refused to load on the Mac Mini and just brought down the computer. On the iPad it was using some version of Quicktime but it kept repeating the same video and just refused to load the one I was selecting. All the good feeling I had from the ABC app went right down the drain after going to the ABC website. And it looks like you can lay all the blame on that nasty five letter word “Flash”.
Steve Jobs is right. Again. Hope he wins. Based on his current track record, don’t bet against him.
