{"id":17,"date":"2007-02-17T03:48:51","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T11:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-02-17T03:48:51","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T11:48:51","slug":"joost-mac-beta-released-perhaps-too-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/17\/joost-mac-beta-released-perhaps-too-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Joost Mac beta released &#8211; perhaps too early?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/todepoint\/392847892\/\" title=\"Joost\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/177\/392847892_d55257eb40_o.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"joost_small.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"180\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joost<\/a> (up until recently code named &#8216;The Venice Project&#8217; ) has released it&#8217;s Mac beta (only Intel Macs at the moment) &#8211; this is good news for us Mac users.The general feeling is pretty much same as with Windows, performance is good, video quality has improved.The interface has slightly evolved since my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todepoint.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/14\/the-venice-project-interface-oddities-a-quick-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">last review<\/a>, but small details are somehow still neglected, mainly fonts inconsistencies and text placement issues. But the issue I am more disturbed about is the remote control readiness &#8211; better say Not Ready.Apple Intel computers ships with Apple Remote and are the only platform that actually justifies the full-screened interface, allowing a real lean backwards experience, controlling your Mac with one hand from across the room.Joost does not support the Apple Remote, furthermore the interface is simply not ready for a remote control, as it is still relying on a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Point-and-click\" target=\"_blank\">point &amp; click<\/a> control (a mouse), and many details in the interface are too small for using from a distance.I believe Joost will eventually be remote controlled, but at the moment the users are getting used to a certain UI logic, and it will be harder to change the entire interaction habits in a future stage, leading me to think that since Joost is &#8220;a new way to watch TV&#8221;, maybe the beta program was released a bit too early?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joost (up until recently code named &#8216;The Venice Project&#8217; ) has released it&#8217;s Mac beta (only Intel Macs at the moment) &#8211; this is good news for us Mac users.The general feeling is pretty much same as with Windows, performance is good, video quality has&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,28,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}