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Monday, April 18, 2011 |
Rant: MLBAM's At Bat 2011 App
Regarding the new MLB 2011 iPhone app:
- Options have been scattered into more places. There are options under More -> Settings, and also on the favorite team page (the gear icon in the upper right). From the main Settings app, the old "MLB At Bat" settings have disappeared; they're now buried under General -> Notifications -> Location Services -> At Bat 11. This is all very haphazard and poorly considered.
- The ability to change the timezone to the current location no longer exists. All my game times — unlike the last two years' worth of At Bat apps — are now EDT. Thanks, guys — a pointless and unnecessary downgrade.
- One team and one team only appears on the home page at startup. If — as I do — you specify more than one team, the alphabetically first team appears to show up on the home page. It would be nice if I could select what I want the app to display when it starts up, rather than the team page.
- Update: The audio button on the game page has disappeared. In order to play gameday audio, you have to be on the general scoreboard page. The real estate where the audio feed button used to be on the game page has been replaced with a pointless ad in the upper right corner. Perhaps the most infuriating change here.
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Comments:
only thing that ticked me up was having to ante up some more coinage for 2011, and apparently each year after that. every other iPAD app gets free upgrades and i had assumed there'd be a one time fee which i paid last year, but MLB will have me shelling out ca$h each spring it appears.
it's a beautiful app though on the iPAD and saves me from DIRECTV since i live out of area. what you list in the big picture are minor annoyances i haven't even noticed.
it's a beautiful app though on the iPAD and saves me from DIRECTV since i live out of area. what you list in the big picture are minor annoyances i haven't even noticed.
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