When I ascend the throne at Apple, my first royal decree will be the head of whoever designed the Podcast app on a silver platter.
First, the app doesn't work terribly well. It doesn't matter what podcast I'm listening to, every few minutes the sound fades out and then comes back. No idea why that is.
Second, the interface is a frickin' Busy Box. There are Podcasts, which you can search. Then there's "Top Stations" which makes no sense at all. The skeuomorphic clue is apparently an old-fashioned tuner-type radio, so you scroll to the right and left to find subjects as though tuning in stations. But then you scroll up and down to identify the podcast in that subject heading. They're just more podcasts, so why do they have a separate categorization?
And then there's the real horror: While a podcast is cued up, tap the big picture of the podcast's graphic. It scrolls up to reveal another obsolete skeuomorph, this time of a reel-to-reel tape deck.
I'm an old guy, and I last operating a reel-to-reel tape machine more than 40 years ago. C'mon, Apple, you created the interface by which most people listen to recordings: the iPod.
Take this reel-to-reel radio nonsense, add the leather bindings on the calendar and contacts, stuff them down the throat of the miserable designer, and then off with his head!
First, the app doesn't work terribly well. It doesn't matter what podcast I'm listening to, every few minutes the sound fades out and then comes back. No idea why that is.
Second, the interface is a frickin' Busy Box. There are Podcasts, which you can search. Then there's "Top Stations" which makes no sense at all. The skeuomorphic clue is apparently an old-fashioned tuner-type radio, so you scroll to the right and left to find subjects as though tuning in stations. But then you scroll up and down to identify the podcast in that subject heading. They're just more podcasts, so why do they have a separate categorization?
And then there's the real horror: While a podcast is cued up, tap the big picture of the podcast's graphic. It scrolls up to reveal another obsolete skeuomorph, this time of a reel-to-reel tape deck.
I'm an old guy, and I last operating a reel-to-reel tape machine more than 40 years ago. C'mon, Apple, you created the interface by which most people listen to recordings: the iPod.
Take this reel-to-reel radio nonsense, add the leather bindings on the calendar and contacts, stuff them down the throat of the miserable designer, and then off with his head!