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We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems
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Re: We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems
#322Earlier quoted context omitted.
Docomo phones were(are?) a Japan-only irrelevance. Granted - Symbian was a thing back then, but can you buy a Symbian phone today? Consumers voted with their money, and they wanted iPhones, not Nokias. Fast forward to 2019, Nokia is nothing more than a trademark - making generic Android phones on one hand, and cashing in on nostalgia with their feature phones on the other hand.
That doesn't change the fact that Apple did NOT create the smartphone.
Try to learn how to communicate with people, you dull pedantic asshole.
Re: We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems
#323Re: We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems
#324Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay, but you left out the rest of that sentence. > and later for requiring UI changes, including showing a Save As panel for each generated file. So, Apple found a crash, and instead of completing the review (this assumes they could have, and benefit of the doubt here, they could have), they didn't. They found and issue, flagged it, and sent it back. This means the developer had to do work, resubmit, and then have a…
> So, Apple found a crash, and instead of completing the review (this assumes they could have, and benefit of the doubt here, they could have), they didn't. Yeah, the crash could have prevented them from completing the review. > As a user, that means Apple is delaying apps longer than need be. Meanwhile, according to another outrage, Apple is •not delaying releases enough* and rushing out buggy apps and operating sys…
Apple is delaying other people's apps and rushing out their own. Either way it saves them work.
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#325Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is an infuriating topic to read about because everybody seems to be varying levels of uninformed. I worked at Nokia's R&D facility in Ruoholahti briefly in 2011, so I got inducted into the inner sanctum of history regarding the phones. Symbian was designed for very anemic hardware, there were very tight constraints it's a marvel that the thing ran on what it did. The iPhones first CPU was at least an order of ma…
"the iPhone, famously did not meet any of the internal tests at Nokia..." So, Nokia saw it as an inferior product? Perhaps this is a problem in engineer-led companies - thinking that the phone with the most megapixels in its camera, or most wifi bands is the best? Technical brilliance counts for nothing if consumers don't want the product. See also Windows Phone, Betamax, etc
No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Containers are not a magic shield that protects you from all attacks. Nor are manual reviews by Apple staff...
Sure, but I’m not going to let perfect be the enemy of good. Could the review process be improved? Absolutely! But I’ll take some review over no review any day of the week.
I'd rather take my review from someone other than Apple then.
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> But I actually avoid the App Store these days, both on MacOS and my iPhone. I never really noticed but I just slowly stopped installing new applications from there That sounds less like avoiding and more like not using. I think this is natural. When the App Store first came out, apple planted the idea in our head that we needed new ways to use our machines. But unless you are a new user, it’s likely you’ve hit an e…
I’ve noticed something different. The apps on the app store used to be good. I’m not sure how or why but the apps on the iOS app store are _terrible_. For any given function, there appears to be no good option on the app store compared to, say, iOS app store 4 years ago (or android around the same time, the last time I used it). This is entirely on apple and not the developers, as Apple are the curators and the devel…
Not to mention Apple's habit of taking good apps and then building them into iOS to cannibalize their own developers. I don't get why anyone would want to build smartphone apps for any platform these days. Between Google and Apple it's entirely a garbage ecosystem for devs.
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#328Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you explain the Microsoft bit? There's an ocean of difference between Microsoft and Apple. You can pretty much pick any MS API from the past 20 years and it'll still work on Windows 10.
Microsoft is moving away from that model. The cost of rapid release cycles for Windows is dropping the testing and compatibility work that was done in the past. You see the impact on a few things like Office and SCCM today. As the legacy windows platforms fade, it will become a thing in other areas. My guess is you’ll see more “fixed in Azure only” scenarios to drive demand for those products, and act as a sales funn…
Sounds like a perfect place for Linux to jump in. I mean if you're looking for stability, there's always stability in the Linux space.
Re: We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems
#329> not user or developer friendly
Well, with text contrast like that, neither is your website to be brutally honest
Re: We are leaving the Apple App Store and all its problems
#330They kind of bury the lead here. They can't have their app on the appstore because: " While we still updated our applications in time, Apple did not review them for the AppStore, and instead rejected them first for a crash (sigh!), and later for requiring UI changes, including showing a Save As panel for each generated file. Now this may not sound like much, this is a serious issue for a document scan application whi…
> instead rejected them first for a crash (sigh!) As a user, I'm glad Apple did that. As a developer, the one thing that I do dislike about Apple, is the dismal state of their documentation on how to actually take advantage of all their platforms' features. I have to begrudgingly admit that their nemesis Microsoft has always been way ahead in that department.
Apple's documentation is some of the worst most incomplete garbage I've ever had the displeasure of trying to read. When you literally need to go to third party people who just figured it out through sheer luck because features are fully undocumented and don't give tool tips, you've broken the user experience.