iTunes Feedback on the Kodak Gallery iPhone App

Nearly every other software application I've used that's built by Kodak misses the mark, so why am I surprised and disappointed that this is no exception? With so many good examples out there, it's hard to understand how anyone—let alone a billion-dollar company—could mess up an iPhone picture viewer. There are kids out there writing web-based iPhone photo apps that run on private servers yet work and look better than this.

Kodak's entrée into the iPhone world seems clunky, buggy, and laden with quirky and gratuitous UI touches that mar the application's usability. From the login page with its ultra-small text size to the legal terms you have to accept [thanks, Kodak, you may be the first company to bring that experience to my iPhone], ultimately leading to photos that you can't pinch to zoom.... Well, once again Kodak has built an application that blatantly ignores and defies established user interaction models, and the result is nothing short of disappointing and embarrassing.

My rating: 2 stars

Watch the tiny thumbnail as the photo loads. Exciting.