A System Update is scheduled to hit Xbox LIVE this afternoon, but there’s no sense in celebrating the progress of the status bar. As Major Nelson is advising via his blog, this is not the update that adds all those E3-announced goodies like Twitter and Facebook and Last.FM. This is just one of those mandatory updates that does something only tech gremlins or a wizard can understand. At the end of the day, it adds WPA 2 Wireless Adapter support. Whatever that is.
Those of you in the mood for some NXE Dashboard tweetin’ need look no further than our video preview of the content. In it, our main man Nick Chester quells the sick urge with footage and live-action shenanigans inside the anticipated update’s new feature set. Check it out and learn something.
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And Sky player is terrible. Just so terrible.
One more day until I can be... fabulous.
But I'm digging last.fm and I don't use Twitter at all cause well I just don't see the point of bloging every little thing of my life
The Facebook client isn't much better. It's not a Facebook client. It's a Facebook status viewer (with all the problems of the Twitter client at that) and a photo viewer. It doesn't do any of the other things Facebook is, and the few things it does are mediocre.
The only good addition is the Last.fm client, though I'd much rather have had Spotify and the 360's fans don't exactly lend it to music listening either.
Meanwhile these new additions, the Zune video store (seems exactly as useless as the old one if outside the US) and the complete shambles that has been the failed SkyPlayer launch have demonstrated one thing - the Xbox UI is crap for any lists of long items (anything longer than about five items). You can't see how long the list is in advance, search, sort into orders, see more than three or four items at a time and you can only move through labouriously one at a time. It needs a major rethink for lots of items.
Phazer
You're totally right about the way Xbox sucks for long lists of items, but my biggest problem isn't the lack of searching or sorting, but the fact that I get seriously motion sick after scrolling through about 10 items. Seriously, on Netflix I can't see all the recommended movies because I get dizzy and have to leave the room for a while sometimes. It's ridiculous.