Remember when Apple bought test flight? That sure worked out well for people building apps for multiple platforms. I'm sufficiently concerned.
HockeyApp Joins Microsoft
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#12I'm not sure it is a good news. In one hand it's great to hear that Analytics will be added and cross support is still important. But in the other hand, it puts developers in inconfortable position. Should we still use HockeyApp for our iOS apps? Depend on a tool owned by a concurrent of your target platform is not so safe on a long term sight..
Why downvotes? I'm only asking questions. Yes, MS strategy is cross-plateform. Now. But in a few years, who knows what MS goals will be?
IMO, taking 10 minutes to think about is not lost time.
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#13I just signed-up with HockeyApp this morning and have been very impressed with the experience. Congratulations to the team! Previously we'd been using TestFlight for iOS and the PLsy Store's built-in beta-test functionality for Android, but it is convenient to have one service that supports a range of mobile OSs and a lower-friction deployment process. When TestFlight was bought by Apple, they fairly quickly abandone…
Microsoft realizes it has to be cross platform... Most important change since the new CEO arrived :)
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#14I'm not sure it is a good news. In one hand it's great to hear that Analytics will be added and cross support is still important. But in the other hand, it puts developers in inconfortable position. Should we still use HockeyApp for our iOS apps? Depend on a tool owned by a concurrent of your target platform is not so safe on a long term sight..
I'm not too worried about it. After all, MS has released Office on iOS, and partnered with Xamarin for iOS development. They'd be insane to buy HockeyApp then kill everything it has and replace it with a Windows Phone only solution. It's weird, but MS is almost one of the best large companies to do cross-platform dev with these days.
I agree with that, but things may be different in 2 years. And MS is also the company that gains the most money with each Android phone sold.
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#15Remember when Apple bought test flight? That sure worked out well for people building apps for multiple platforms. I'm sufficiently concerned.
I really doubt Microsoft is going to make it Windows Phone only. Windows Phone is just not that valuable as a platform.
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#16I'm not sure it is a good news. In one hand it's great to hear that Analytics will be added and cross support is still important. But in the other hand, it puts developers in inconfortable position. Should we still use HockeyApp for our iOS apps? Depend on a tool owned by a concurrent of your target platform is not so safe on a long term sight..
Why downvotes? I'm only asking questions. Yes, MS strategy is cross-plateform. Now. But in a few years, who knows what MS goals will be? IMO, taking 10 minutes to think about is not lost time.
I didn't down vote, but you're not just asking questions; you're masking a statement in form of a question.
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#17I'm not sure it is a good news. In one hand it's great to hear that Analytics will be added and cross support is still important. But in the other hand, it puts developers in inconfortable position. Should we still use HockeyApp for our iOS apps? Depend on a tool owned by a concurrent of your target platform is not so safe on a long term sight..
Why downvotes? I'm only asking questions. Yes, MS strategy is cross-plateform. Now. But in a few years, who knows what MS goals will be? IMO, taking 10 minutes to think about is not lost time.
Downvotes are possibly because your comment could be read as instinctively/tribally anti Microsoft.
Yes, MS and Apple are competitors. But what would they have to gain by shutting-down iOS support? People would just move to TestFlight (Apple owned), which would gain MS noting at all and probably earn them some justifiable bad feeling.
Nadela-era Microsoft is looking to be a different and more open beast than the Gates and Balmer era company.
Edit: I didn't downvote you.
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#18I just signed-up with HockeyApp this morning and have been very impressed with the experience. Congratulations to the team! Previously we'd been using TestFlight for iOS and the PLsy Store's built-in beta-test functionality for Android, but it is convenient to have one service that supports a range of mobile OSs and a lower-friction deployment process. When TestFlight was bought by Apple, they fairly quickly abandone…
From: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2014/12/08/microso...
"We will integrate HockeyApp into the Application Insights service in Visual Studio Online to expand Application Insights support for iOS and Android." Seems to me they're positioning themselves for more cross platform development.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why downvotes? I'm only asking questions. Yes, MS strategy is cross-plateform. Now. But in a few years, who knows what MS goals will be? IMO, taking 10 minutes to think about is not lost time.
Downvotes are possibly because your comment could be read as instinctively/tribally anti Microsoft. Yes, MS and Apple are competitors. But what would they have to gain by shutting-down iOS support? People would just move to TestFlight (Apple owned), which would gain MS noting at all and probably earn them some justifiable bad feeling. Nadela-era Microsoft is looking to be a different and more open beast than the Gate…
My comment would apply to any acquisition. If I'd use an analytics tool for Facebook acquired by Twitter, I'll take 10 minutes to think about it.
I'm not anti-MS. I was one of the first to make Windows Phone apps. I like a lot Nadela, but do you know how many time will he stay MS CEO?
As I said, MS is not only interested in Windows Phone but win a lot of money with Android.
We probably continue to use HockeyApp but I'm not fan of the "don't ask questions that may hurt" bashing here.
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#20I'm not sure it is a good news. In one hand it's great to hear that Analytics will be added and cross support is still important. But in the other hand, it puts developers in inconfortable position. Should we still use HockeyApp for our iOS apps? Depend on a tool owned by a concurrent of your target platform is not so safe on a long term sight..
Why downvotes? I'm only asking questions. Yes, MS strategy is cross-plateform. Now. But in a few years, who knows what MS goals will be? IMO, taking 10 minutes to think about is not lost time.
When you're in such an unstable environment as using a 3 year old startup to build apps for a 7 year old OS, I don't think that worrying about 2 years down the line is really worth it.
If Microsoft hadn't bought them, what would Hockey look like in 2 years? What will iOS look like in 2 years?