Hey, the business reason to buy it is clear. Nobody develops for Windows Phone, but everybody has the burden to develop for two plataforms: iOS and Android. If MS lower the burden and automatically makes it very, very easy to develop for Windows Phone, they will finally have some decent software in their plataform.
HockeyApp Joins Microsoft
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#42Hey, the business reason to buy it is clear. Nobody develops for Windows Phone, but everybody has the burden to develop for two plataforms: iOS and Android. If MS lower the burden and automatically makes it very, very easy to develop for Windows Phone, they will finally have some decent software in their plataform.
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#43Awesome, hope they keep supporting iOS and Android distribution.
It fits nicely within the dev story around getting .net and C# running across platforms along with the Xamarin partnership. With testflight evaporating, this is a logical acquisition. Does it make sense to keep it open to native devs? Sure. They can have ramps placed in front of them for using Azure and various telemetry solutions.
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#44I'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.
> Yes, MS strategy is cross-plateform. Now. But in a few years, who knows what MS goals will be?
Equally, HockeyApp exists. Now. But in a few years, who knows where they'll be?
Basically, betting long-term on a startup is a bad bet. So you want them to be acquired by someone. I'm not sure who else out there would be better.
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#45Hey, the business reason to buy it is clear. Nobody develops for Windows Phone, but everybody has the burden to develop for two plataforms: iOS and Android. If MS lower the burden and automatically makes it very, very easy to develop for Windows Phone, they will finally have some decent software in their plataform.
That's a good, concise explanation of a potential strategy. Excellent job!
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#46Great news.
What I love about HockeyApp (vs TestFlight) is that I don't really have to bother with the App Store Review Guidelines.
Makes testing much faster. Plus, they show they care when it comes to integration: tons of help, plus a special wizard to make it easy.
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#47It's interesting to see the consolidation in this space. HockeyApp is the #2 most used crash reporting library for Android according to our stats: http://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/tag/crash-reporting/...
The #1, crashlytics, was acquired in early 2013 by Twitter, and BugSense was acquired by Splunk.
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#48Been 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.
I use it for Enterprise apps mostly to send to myself. Internally we have a website where people can get our apps but for testing on multiple devices it's OK. Haven't tried it on a lot of users though. TestFlight was awesome but now it's mostly horrible once Apple made it so painful.
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#49"What browsers work with HockeyApp?
We have developed and tested with Firefox, Chrome, and Safari." Kinda funny.
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#50Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with hockey...
I believe I've read in the past that its a play on "Ad-Hoc".
Yes, also disappointed its not about hockey.