Make The Escapist iPhone/iPod Touch friendly.

[Simriel]

I am currently typing this on my iPod touch as my PC has packed in and I just realised something. The escapist is not iPod/iPhone friendly. The page layout is near impossible to navigate and the videos don't play. Can it really be so hard to have a sub-site fr iPhone users? Other smaller sites do it.

 

[TimeLord]

I have also realised this, the layout is (I believe) an Escapist problem as they would have to make a "mobile" site.

But the videos are an Apple thing as they need to make iPod Touch/Phone compatible with Escapist video types (no idea what they are though)

 

[VicunaBlue]

The videos are flash, something ipods cannot play.

 

[TimeLord]

The videos are flash, something ipods cannot play.

Exactly, I wish Apple would update the touch/phone for this

btw: Liking your avatar

 

[Aardvark]

Now that I know this, I hereby announce the commencement of my campaign to keep The Escapist iphone unfriendly. I call this campaign "Screw Apple And All People Who Use Their Stupid Products".

Of course, this campaign will probably end when I finally cave, exercise my hippocritic oath and get myself one of the thousand dollar tax deductions.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

This sounds like a job for ECAP! or the E-team. or ESP.
whatever.
maybe our overlord masters will do something about this?

 

[walls of cetepedes]

This sounds like a job for ECAP! or the E-team. or ESP.
whatever.
maybe our overlord masters will do something about this?

Maybe.
Go ahead and raise the issue.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Works fine on my Blackberry.

 

[Beartrucci]

I have been thinking this exact same thing for the last couple weeks.

 

[AlphaOmega]

Nuff said.

 

[Simriel]

Now that I know this, I hereby announce the commencement of my campaign to keep The Escapist iphone unfriendly. I call this campaign "Screw Apple And All People Who Use Their Stupid Products".

Of course, this campaign will probably end when I finally cave, exercise my hippocritic oath and get myself one of the thousand dollar tax deductions.

Nuff said.

Yeah yeah. I hated apple
till I actually bought one of their products. You hate iPods simply because they are popular and you think it makes you cool to hate them

Works fine on my Blackberry.

Same with my Nokia E71. Looks like it's just the Apple products that have the problems. Perhaps if you hadn't gone out and bought a product with missing features, Apple would have had to sort things out instead of just raking in the dough.

The site is not mobile friendly at all. It's hard to navigate because there are so many (on a phone screen) tiny buttons.

 

[AngloDoom]

People actually use phones to go on the internet?

I thought that was a worthless gimmick...then again, my phone cannot ring or vibrate at the same time. No, I have to choose one or the other, based on my environment.

 

[Aardvark]

You hate iPods simply because they are popular and you think it makes you cool to hate them

Not because they're a right pain in the left testicle to get music onto, the software is hideously bloated and godawful, the good ones have no decent shuffle function and the only reason they're the best on the market is because every other company has pretty much given up.

No no, it's got to be apple hatin'. No other possible way it could be anything else.

 

[DazZ.]

Yeah yeah. I hated apple
till I actually bought one of their products. You hate iPods simply because they are popular and you think it makes you cool to hate them

I liked Apple till I bought their products. It went like this.

Ooh 120 gb iPod ayy? That's a good deal for that amount of space. I'll even switch to using iTunes on my PC even though its slow and clunky as hell. Doesn't bother me as I can easily sync everything. Month later iPod broken, no knocks at all. That's fine get a new one for free.

This happened 3 times. Then I got a different model with less space (mostly because I was still using iTunes) and it doesn't break within a month....

It lasts a godlike 2 months! result! (except it isn't really is it... that's a fucking poor attempt at life)

Fuck Apple. You can't even take the new iPods apart to fix yourself you have to talk to their stuck up staff down the overly modern looking Apple store.

 

[G1eet]

You hate iPods simply because they are popular and you think it makes you cool to hate them

Not because they're a right pain in the left testicle to get music onto, the software is hideously bloated and godawful, the good ones have no decent shuffle function and the only reason they're the best on the market is because every other company has pretty much given up.

No no, it's got to be apple hatin'. No other possible way it could be anything else.

And here I was thinking I was the only one who hated the shuffle feature on my iFail.

Case in point- I wanted to get a good shuffle going for work, but I couldn't get any of the songs I wanted, but I didn't want to make a playlist. So, I restarted the "shuffle songs" feature at least five times, and the same songs kept recycling. Bloody annoying.