31–40 of 46 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Teenagers. And Japanese. They will always use stuff like this. And funny thing abou teenagers - there are brand new ones being made by the millions every single year .... It's the Toys'r'us business model. Your customer base is brand new every single year.
To be fair, there are new Japanese being made every single year, too.
Am I the only one who is annoyed at apps that require GPS to be enabled? I can deal with it for things like Navigation where I can plug my phone into my car to keep the battery up. But for general use, it just sucks up way too much battery and is easy to forget to turn off. The result is that I just avoid apps that require it.
Boy, there are a million reasons to hate on Color, but the fact that their 1.0 app crashes is the least convincing and the most mean-spirited. Everybody's 1.0 app crashes.
>>Everybody's 1.0 app crashes. No, that is wrong. My 1.0 apps don't crash (as per itunesconnect which says "No Crash Reports" for my last 3 iPhone/iPad apps which are all on their 1.0 version). One of them was recently ranked #1 on Apple's top charts for its category. So this isn't a matter of trivial apps with a low user base.
There should have been quite a few, too, since we were the #1 iPad app for a while so I expect every crash report to mean 10x that many users actually experienced the crash.
Boy, there are a million reasons to hate on Color, but the fact that their 1.0 app crashes is the least convincing and the most mean-spirited. Everybody's 1.0 app crashes.
>>Everybody's 1.0 app crashes. No, that is wrong. My 1.0 apps don't crash (as per itunesconnect which says "No Crash Reports" for my last 3 iPhone/iPad apps which are all on their 1.0 version). One of them was recently ranked #1 on Apple's top charts for its category. So this isn't a matter of trivial apps with a low user base.
iTunes Connect relies on people syncing their phone. Which doesn't happen nearly as often as you think. You should use something like PLCrashReporter[1] if you want accurate crash reports.
Am I the only one who is annoyed at apps that require GPS to be enabled? I can deal with it for things like Navigation where I can plug my phone into my car to keep the battery up. But for general use, it just sucks up way too much battery and is easy to forget to turn off. The result is that I just avoid apps that require it.
This might get down-voted to oblivion, but here it goes: OP, cool it down with the link bait headlines. It seems like fashionable to bad mouth Color right now with their monster financing, etc, but if you have ever built anything (and it looks like you have) you know damn well how hard it is. And V 1.0, 40 million or not, always stinks and If it doesn't you shipped to late. So, let's give this guys some time so we ca…
And V 1.0, 40 million or not, always stinks and If it doesn't you shipped to late. Whatever happened to beta releases?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The app actually is crashing phones. It turns out that it's quite possible for apps to crash most Android phones, either by making the phone so unresponsive that a watchdog kicks in, or by using so much RAM that the OOM killer goes to town.
In both cases, iOS would just kill the app. Why is Android not doing the same? Via limits.conf/ulimit/setrlimit, this should be quite easy to do.
Jokes aside, I bounced the concept for colors.com off of some people and they didn't like the idea of automatically sharing pictures they take with people who are nearby. While there is something interesting to this concept, I think it could go either way. It could be a lot like Google Wave. It is certainly innovative, but I'm not convinced it will catch on. Maybe it will... Thoughts anyone?
Jokes aside, I bounced the concept for colors.com off of some people and they didn't like the idea of automatically sharing pictures they take with people who are nearby. While there is something interesting to this concept, I think it could go either way. It could be a lot like Google Wave. It is certainly innovative, but I'm not convinced it will catch on. Maybe it will... Thoughts anyone?
I'm sure it will catch on, it's a just a pretty obvious thing to do. But I wonder how color plans to maintain market dominance? I can't see enough of a first-mover advantage here to justify such a big bet. - But perhaps they have something awesome up their sleeve that we don't know about yet?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure it will catch on, it's a just a pretty obvious thing to do. But I wonder how color plans to maintain market dominance? I can't see enough of a first-mover advantage here to justify such a big bet. - But perhaps they have something awesome up their sleeve that we don't know about yet?
It's funny you say it's obvious. The whole elastic network concept wasn't obvious to me at all until they explained it. It's somewhat engenius in my opinion, but maybe I'm slow and this idea is obvious. Like I said though, I think the concept has some mainstream acceptance problems and I'm not sure it will work.
I don't even know what "elastic network" is supposed to mean, but yes, they better have a lot of that, for $41M...