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DHH on iPhone 2.0's Glitches
Merlin Mann | Jul 23 2008
iPhone 2.0: The glory wore off in wash - (37signals) [via DF] While acknowledging the complexity of Apple's ambitious launch, David Heinemeier Hansson says iPhone 2.0 wasn't ready for prime time on a number of levels.
David also has a laundry list of complaints on stability and performance. I went through his items and ticked off each of the ones I've also noticed (with a 01-10 for how big a problem it's been for me):
I'll also add a few of my own:
Hm. I hadn't really thought about all these at once, but, yeah. That's a big bunch of broken. Let's hope an update is out soon that addresses some of these. 25 Comments
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 Re: Oh, Come on Guys!Submitted by bensmith on July 23, 2008 - 10:04pm.
Maybe just to clarify, because I think we are making two different points. My post was not a defense of the NDA or the App Store. As developer I hate both, I wish I could just put my apps on my website for download. I've had an app waiting a LONG time. And NDAs, while annoying, are relatively common. When I work on custom projects for my clients (compared to the products we sell) I'm always under an NDA. They are not an excuse for sloppy code (though, I definitely agree that a release would help programmers). And I don't think end users should have to care about technical stuff, that was to illustrate the problems with the media talking about stuff it has no business talking about. If you (media) are complaining about a 3rd party apps crashing (and you aren't blaming the 3rd party apps themselves) you can't also complain about the existence of the App Store; because those are contradictory complaints (also I can't get into this without getting myself into trouble, but trust me Apple isn't "vouching" for the apps that get into the App Store). Further, if MacWorld writes an article that says how horrible it is that there isn't background apps; their readers don't need to know about objects and autorelease pools, but they should. Otherwise they are talking about something without all (or even some) of the facts. (Which is exactly what they did). And unfortunately these people (despite being incredibly stupid) seem to have an effect on Apple. And that's the core of my problem, they have power without responsibility. In fact they complain about the relatively obvious result of what they wanted. As I said in my post, there are some real issues with 2.0. And some of Apple's Apps have some issues themselves. But I can tell you, with relative level of certainty, that the vast majority of the crashes people are talking about are coming from the bad behavior of 3rd party apps themselves. » POSTED IN:
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