Originally Posted by
Terence
If you consider yourself an Android dev (not a cross-platform mobile app builder) how would you know? To begin with, and app is not an app is not an app any more than a car is a car is a car and you hire a VW mechanic to fix your Ford. There is not an infinite amount of resources, so the best approach for all of these platforms is for us to use a universal web app, and then apply that into a hybrid app on any of the platforms where demand warrants. The fact is, even doing that is full of minefields as Android browsers themselves do not run the same (or as they are supposed to) on all the many permutations of Android/OS/provider-Customizations/Browser. Any standards that do exist are not universally adhered to which requires testing many times the number of possible scenarios. And, for the customer, it is just "Android" so they will expect it all to just "work".
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Also, though you might have not meant it, your response has a fairly condescending (or unbelievably cocky) tone and for me slights the incredible level of talent we have on our engineering team. I rarely say something like this...so here it goes: I am really getting sick and tired of "those-that-know-better" second-guessing our team.
We are passionate. We care about our customers. We make decisions that we know give the most new tech to the most customers. Are we perfect? No. But I am confident in saying we have the best engineering team in this industry. Period. We have continually improved a product, for free, that for some customers they have owned for 8 years now. We maintain (and improve all the time) a cloud service for tens of thousands of customers with hundreds of billions of data points stored and millions of transactions a day, with an uptime record that FaceBook would be proud of, for free (no ads, no subscriptions). Who does that? Truly passionate fish people. That's who.
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I am done explaining why we have a new iOS app and not at the same time an Android one.
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