Posted Monday 15th December 2008 14:04 GMT
“The 'Browse Photosynth' functionality broke right after we submitted the app to the AppStore,”
So shite, sooo Microsoft LOL.
AND I'm a Windows guy with an office full of WM-powered smartphones...
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 14:04 GMT
unhead off!
buggy software from ms. it speaks volumes that they didn't release it for their own platform first.
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 15:19 GMT
so what's the news angle ?
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 15:19 GMT
I thought Apple's oh-so-stringent vetting process was supposed to catch buggy apps before they got accepted into to the AppStore?
Shows just how closely Apple actually tests an app before accepting it (or not).
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 15:19 GMT
Heh-heh...get the apple fanbois to do the beta testing of the service and pay for the privilege before rolling it out to Windows Mobile free of charge.
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 15:19 GMT
Given that it's vetted by QA and all that.
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 15:19 GMT
... whether it works, does it look pretty?
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 15:19 GMT
“The 'Browse Photosynth' functionality broke right after we submitted the app to the AppStore”
I don' think so.
Try again.
The 'Browse Photosynth' functionality was always broken, but we only noticed right after we submitted the app to the AppStore.
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 15:54 GMT
I know that project plan - debug and error testing time = buffer zone for dev time overruns
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 15:54 GMT
I think what the M$ muppets mean was their servers broke, not the app. The app itself was probably fine, just it did something that didn't work with the server. Thus to Apple, there is no bug, the code does exactly what it is supposed to do. Apple don't vet apps to make sure they work, they vet to make sure nothing crashes or does anything illegal or damaging. They can't be expected to vet your app to make sure it works well with you servers...
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 15:54 GMT
I was pondering that one myself. I was working on a theory involving the intervention of invisible bug pixies at the AppStore, but your explanation seems so much more elegant that I won't bother developing this one further.
Only one question remains then. WTF's a "Photosynth" and why would I want to browse one?
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 16:09 GMT
I've downloaded it - it's quite good - the pan & zoom are fast.
User interface is pretty standard iphone.
The only thing I don't like is the "Microsoft livelabs Seadragon" watermark in the top left corner of the screen.
Will be a lot better when they get Photosynth to work (which I could never get to work on my PC).
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 16:56 GMT
Why would Apple be responsible for the testing of all of the apps that are released for the iPhone?
If they did test them then half would never get released as they would be found to be buggy and then we'll get a load of stories from people demanding to know why the can't run whatever software they like on their own iPhone, however brain dead the software is.
Anyway all of that kind of software should be popping up on Android any day now, and good luck to them.
Dunno what the fanboi baiters are going to say now that their company - mikrosoff - are releasing software for the enemy.
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 16:56 GMT
I just had a look on the photosynth site and even had a look at the instructional video.
Once done a "photosynth" does look really pretty but then is there even a way to use your "creations" in a webpage or do people have to sign up to the photosynth site to view your album?
I've never actually came across it until this article. Looks fairly useless. I'm assuming it uses silverlight in some way. Seems like a lot of effort to take all of the images when there's no real use for them.
Maybe if you could put them into a website in some way it could be useful in certain cases. Without looking into it further I would hope you can atleast use it on your silverlight website. Not that i've seen anything other than a MS site that makes use of it so far.
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 16:56 GMT
I can't see it being "invisible bug pixies" But I went for the lazy option.
Seadragon project manager: Have you tested the app?
Programer: Yeah, yeah. Lots of testing.
Other programer: What a dork. What does he users are for? Testing - couldn't be arsed.
But on reflection, the lazy option is too simple. There's probably something in the iPhone kernel that notices the origin of the app and if Redmond it activates the well programing construct - the "if ... then ... maybe" statement.
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 16:56 GMT
Apple are b*st*rds. No wait, M$ are b*st*rds. No wait... ah f*ck it. They're all b*st*rds.
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 18:56 GMT
MS release a crap app... That's unpossible. Oh wait no it's MS so business as usual, never mind. Nothing to see here people, move along... move along.
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 18:56 GMT
According to the TV ads, Photosynth is supposed to be one of Vista/Mohave's killer apps. Never knew there was that much demand for making giant panoramas, but there ya go.
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 18:56 GMT
"What does he users are for?"
And that's why we test stuff!
Just sayin', like.
Posted Monday 15th December 2008 20:10 GMT
This is the public beta test,
Im surprised its free, but there you go. No doubt SP1 will be rushed out soon all 650 terrabytes of it
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 00:03 GMT
"Microsoft releases first flaky iPhone app"
Unless you meant they carefully delineate their iPhone application product line into "flaky", "non-flaky", and...I don't know..."strawberry", you probably meant:
"Microsoft releases flaky first iPhone app"
Look, I'm sorry to nitpick, but grammar is important! Especially for journalists! Come on!
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:10 GMT
Given that the iPhone is both gorgeous and shiny, why on earth would I soil such a lovely device with a piece-of-sh!t app from the Redmond mob? FFS, couldn't they have come up with something more interesting than that?
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 10:10 GMT
10 minutes later, my iPhone just comes up with these red rings of death.. Good to see Microsoft keeping to their tradition of producing turds.
Posted Tuesday 16th December 2008 16:57 GMT
Sounds like the kind of crap you would get pre-installed with your new mac as opposed to the kind of crap MS would release.
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