Cupcake is catastrophe, claims Big in Japan dev

[LazyGenius]

Vodafone faces the possibility of having to deal with a bunch of users having horrendous user experiences due to applications crashing or not functioning on their newly hyped device. Invariably some of those very users will end up ditching the phone (and consequently the platform), possibly going elsewhere for their mobile service.

It'd be even more loloworthy if Mr. Sharkey's application was found to be incompatible with 1.5.

oh man... i forgot the magic is available in spain already... i would be pretty pissed if i bought a phone and half the apps i downloaded didnt work....

[henchman]

i have never even used shopsavvy....

Then I guess you never go shopping.
I have found it to be one of the best apps on the phone, and it's saved me a pile of dough.

IE, I had to get some tick medicine for my dogs. $60,- for a box with 3 applications at The pet store.
I bought it, went home, scanned it. And found it online for $22,-.
I ordered 3 of them right away.

I'm doing Home renovations, and needed a kitchen faucet.
I was at Lowes, and found a faucet i liked.
Scanned it in the store, and found it was at least $30,- MORE expensive everywhere else.

So, just with those 2 purchases I literally saved myself $100,- thanks to shop savvy.

[ryaninc]

I lost a whole lot of respect for Shop Savvy after their recent update debacle. The fact that their program constantly enables GPS and WiFi, all while draining the battery, then claim that it doesn't drain the battery is just crazy to me. That's just terrible customer service.

[LazyGenius]

Then I guess you never go shopping.
I have found it to be one of the best apps on the phone, and it's saved me a pile of dough.

IE, I had to get some tick medicine for my dogs. $60,- for a box with 3 applications at The pet store.
I bought it, went home, scanned it. And found it online for $22,-.
I ordered 3 of them right away.

I'm doing Home renovations, and needed a kitchen faucet.
I was at Lowes, and found a faucet i liked.
Scanned it in the store, and found it was at least $30,- MORE expensive everywhere else.

So, just with those 2 purchases I literally saved myself $100,- thanks to shop savvy.

i do go shopping. i jsut do it all on ebay... no cheaper prices anywhere else...

[DrVeronica]

I lost a whole lot of respect for Shop Savvy after their recent update debacle. The fact that their program constantly enables GPS and WiFi, all while draining the battery, then claim that it doesn't drain the battery is just crazy to me. That's just terrible customer service.

come on, are you really shocked? what kind of person ever takes the blame?!?!?!?!


I refuse to use shopsavvy on my phone now...that wifi business really annoyed me and well, I didn't appreciate them not owning up to it.

[konzern]

i do go shopping. i jsut do it all on ebay... no cheaper prices anywhere else...

i only shop on ebay "buy it now" items so sometimes amazon has cheaper stuff

[PDXMatt]

I refuse to use shopsavvy on my phone now...that wifi business really annoyed me and well, I didn't appreciate them not owning up to it.

I feel the same. Compare Everywhere works just as well without the GPS/WiFi drama.

[UncleRedz]

This is plain silly. Google released an early version of the 1.5 SDK two weeks ago, so that developers would get a heads up on what to do in order to ensure compatibility, granted the final 1.5 SDK was released only a few days ago, but that did not force anyone to wait and not use the early 1.5 SDK release.

Even so, if the 1.5 update is pushed out in May, then we would have had at least 4 days with the final 1.5 SDK and an additional two weeks with the early release. So that would be rather close to the 2-3 weeks mentioned as a required time to update the apps.

Also, Google has been blogging about these changes for some time now and they have shown how to remain backwards compatible and how to deal with using new features while remaining compatible with previous versions. And if you would make a 1.5 only app, then they have shown how to mark that app as requiring 1.5, so that it can't be incorrectly installed on an older OS version.

As I understand it, based on the Google Developer blog, the only programs that will break are those that use unofficial API's and/or exploit security flaws.

There's also a change of the default button width that might affect the UI layout for some, but that's an easy fix. Also there's some changes affecting the maximum limit of nested items in the UI layout, but if you're hitting that limit, then you need to rethink your layout.

If your going to be a pioneer and develop apps for a smoking hot OS that haven't had time to settle yet, then you have to expect a bumpy ride.

[chiu0nthls]

just do a hard reset on your phone. and start all over with cupcake. your phone needs to be "reformated" anyways!

[Student]

Andorid Phones Were Made To Be Hacked Not Controlled By T-Mobile.