HockeyApp Joins Microsoft • Hacker News Board

Re: HockeyApp Joins Microsoft

#31

Post by dharma1 » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 4:29 PM UTC

Also used to use Testflight when they still did Android, and signed up with Hockey App yesterday. Hope the Microsoft acquisition doesn't mean that I'll have to find another beta testing platform again!

Re: HockeyApp Joins Microsoft

#32

Post by OneDrive » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 4:31 PM UTC

This looks cool. Is there anything similar provide free personal account?

Re: HockeyApp Joins Microsoft

#33

Post by coldcode » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 4:34 PM UTC

Been using Beta by Crashlytics since Apple screwed up TestFlight. If MS does continue to support iOS maybe I will switch to that.

Re: HockeyApp Joins Microsoft

#34

Post by danabramov » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 4:35 PM UTC

HockeyApp is awesome. They're very supportive, and the tooling itself is very good. Happy for them!

Re: HockeyApp Joins Microsoft

#35

Post by brianobush » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 4:36 PM UTC

Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with hockey...

Re: HockeyApp Joins Microsoft

#36

Post by blumkvist » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 4:41 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #30

NicoJuicy wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They didn't went all in ( Office = milk cow), they did a huge shift now with Satya Nadella. That is a fundemental change vs. a change from the inside ( before it was pushed because some people grasped the concept and they were allowed to try it out)

Yeah it was shortly after Satya taking over that MS Office for iPad was released. They'd obviously had the code there, but the authority to actually get it out seemed to be lacking.

No, they just needed the new face to kick things off, so everybody can attribute the change and believe.

EEE. Watch and learn. This is why Microsoft will never die, no matter how hard some people's wishful thinking.

Re: HockeyApp Joins Microsoft

#37

Post by Avalaxy » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 4:52 PM UTC

brianobush wrote: post #35

Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with hockey...

Not even with ice hockey!

Re: HockeyApp Joins Microsoft

#38

Post by guiomie » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 4:59 PM UTC

brianobush wrote: post #35

Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with hockey...

Ahaha. Yah I was surprised to see no relation. Or perhaps there is one that we don't know ? I thought maybe they were a Canadian company, but they don't seem to be...

Re: HockeyApp Joins Microsoft

#39

Post by vm » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 4:59 PM UTC

Microsoft is back for acquisitions! This is good for everyone working on tech startups.

Recent buys: Acompli - Dec 1, $200M / Aorato - Nov 13, $200M / Equivio - Oct 8, $200M / Mojang (Minecraft) - Sept 15, $2.5B

Microsft even started accepting Bitcoin today and recently did a major BD deal with Dropbox. Zombie no more.

Re: HockeyApp Joins Microsoft

#40

Post by faizmokhtar » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 5:00 PM UTC

coldcode wrote: post #33

Been using Beta by Crashlytics since Apple screwed up TestFlight. If MS does continue to support iOS maybe I will switch to that.

How is your experience so far? Is it much easier? Been using Crashlytics mainly for the crash reports, never tried anything else.