I think the same idea can be applied to the backend as well, instead of creating a firebase account, and allowing someone else’s code to magically serve your tiny website. Granted, its not as simple as <h1> Tiny Website </h1>, but it is just as satisfying to build something on the backend that is “your own”, as least in my humble opinion.
except this may not be either useful or disruptive. Perhaps Apple relegated it to a gimmick because they knew that tying something as fundamental as navigation to it would not work. Just think of all of the people who claimed they got sick from or were simply terribly annoyed by all of the motion in iOS7. Now imagine that this motion is the foundation of your device. Does not sound useful or disruptive to me.
I think Apple's face is blissfully smack-free after this particular announcement
> It took me forever to realize that I had to download the T-Mobile voicemail app to get my voicemail
That's all he says. Nowhere in the post he says voicemail didn't work - he implies he wanted an app to get his Voicemail like iOS. The regular voicemail stuff just works on any stock Android GSM phone - you get a notification for new ones and you can tap that or long press 1 to go to carrier voice mail box for your old VMEs.
He never says like iOS. you are inserting that. he says he never realized that, in order to get his voicemail (and i read that as to get it in any way shape or form), he had to download t mobiles app.
Nitpicking much? iOS started the Visual Voice Mail thing. No GSM, non-iPhone user is used to using Visual Voice Mail App - they pretty much tap the VME notification or long dial 1 to get to voice mail - that still works on any unlocked Android with any GSM carrier.
How is it unreasonable to buy a phone and expect it to work? Anything less than that is either the carrier screwing up a phone that works fine or HTC screwing up by not having a phone that works without the carrier's help. It is bad user experience, which is what his post is all about
It worked - I have always used unlocked phones and you do get voicemail notifications without doing anything further. (There are still possibilities of issues if you bought European model it won't have US Carrier's APN Settings etc. but that's hardly reasonable to expect.) He wanted T-Mobile VoiceMail app to be bundled with it and also WiFi calling - both are carrier specific features which would have worked fine if he would have bought the right phone -T-Mobile HTC One. Expecting that to work on an unlocked, carrier unspecific phone designed to be LCD on as many GSM carriers is nothing but unreasonable.
"What we’re hearing from multiple sources is that Google+ will no longer be considered a product, but a platform...
Oh, okay, that makes some sense. They have created the features necessary to integrate Google+ into everything they do from now on. Makes sense.
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If G+ was originally intended to be a platform, rather than a product, this would make sense. And I don't have any firsthand knowledge, but it seems to me that everything points to them wanting this to be a facebook-killing product...not a platform on which to build other things.
my company did this (out of necessity) back when there were ~10 of us. As a young developer, I didn't know any better, but I dreaded it. I was SO glad when we moved to a dedicated support team. Also, in my experience, if you are hiring good people, a dedicated customer support person is going to give your customer a MUCH better experience.
