The most crucial bit for me, which I don't see on the one-pager, is the ability to test devices in-market on carrier networks. Testing phones for Korean or Japanese carriers (or British, or Brazilian) on simulations or using GSM roaming is not good enough.
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#32> unlimited testing for a flat monthly fee of $250 per device Renting remote-controlled Android devices for $250 a month, is this even remotely worth it? There aren't many devices that wouldn't pay for themselves by the end of the 2nd month...
Generally the value proposition of these kind of services is that you can try to reproduce an issue that only shows up on a particular piece of hardware and OS. For instance, someone with iOS 7 on an iPhone 5, which you can't even buy new right now. Or a particular Samsung phone that wasn't very popular and was only sold for a few months.
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#33Amazon is coming for Google's [Cloud Test Lab]( https://developers.google.com/cloud-test-lab/ ) and [Nativetap]( https://beta.nativetap.io/ ).
On a brief look, it appears that all of these choices (Including Amazon's new one) only support Android devices and not iOS? I believe Xamarin Test Cloud includes iOS, although I'm not certain if it integrates outside of the Xamarin framework. http://xamarin.com/test-cloud Seems like a gap they should all be trying to fill.
Apple developer program licensing agreements make it very hard to (legally) provide iOS devices for remote testing.
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#34ohhh :)
take a look at another monkey at www.monkop.com
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#35So basically these guys?
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
That Flipboard animation/video (showing the report I guess) is super distracting/annoying. I literally deleted it with developer bar just so I could read your copy in peace. Also calling a $800 package with 25 hours and 5x accounts the "starter" level seems a little odd. It is your lowest paid tier, but there's nothing starter-y about it. It is your normal tier. The free tier is the starter tier. I have no idea what…
Agreed on the animations. Why must everything be moving and sliding in? Just put elements like pricing section where they should be from the beginning.
Totally. I'm hungover, and all the animations made me nauseous.
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#37I am always really curious to know how these kinds of services deal with security issues: they don't get to control the security of the devices they are running, and often will only even sort of have access to reflashing them; how do they deal with someone testing an app with a kernel exploit, installing a persistent backdoor, and then watching what everyone else later using that device is testing?