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Re: Joost: For sale, or just fortifying?

Gadget Sleuth — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:56:40 -0000

Downloading/installing an app made me steer away from it, I can say. It needs to evolve and be web-only.

Re: Joost: For sale, or just fortifying?

Jason Schmidt — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:13:14 -0000

To call Joost buggy, underwhelming or not exciting is very trendy now that they are no longer declared a "hot" item.

Joost's UI is intuitive, the software solid and the content plentiful.

Joost made the simple problem that so many have made and continue: they began as a desktop app. Endemic to that experience is the cumbersome process of downloading, installing and launching a separate program. Then updating as new versions are released. Same problem that held back Miro. And still others like Boxee continue to be lured by the software designer's love of controlling ALL aspects of the experience to become God. It rails against all that users love about the Web: ubiquity, UI conventionality, personal-customization, flexibility.

The most brilliant engineers and designers in the world make the same simple mistakes again and again in the attempt to reinvent the wheel. And their businesses fail. Why do that when the Web works?

Re: Joost: For sale, or just fortifying?

twiter — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:00:14 -0000

I think joost should hae innovate more when the interest with them is hight too bad they didn't

Re: Joost: For sale, or just fortifying?

TerrenceRussell — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:52:18 -0000

Yeah, phrases like that are just begging for a "Great Chain of Video Being" flowchart. But I'd have to agree, Joost's catalog and interface haven't excited me in looooong time.

Re: Joost: For sale, or just fortifying?

Peter Martin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:41:24 -0000

Actually, if content is king (and it is), I'd say distribution is more of a feudal vassal dependent on the whims of his highness.

Joost has always disappointed anyhow. Confusing and buggy software, now an underwhelming portal. Meh.