> We expect that the SDK will continue to change before we launch out of developer preview, and want to provide a great experience for users and developers before making the SDK and additional apps more broadly available.
Then why are they offering it in retail stores like best buy? Sucks that you buy something for feature X and few days later an update comes through getting rid of it. Does anyone know how hard is it to reverse this update?
would you have the same reaction if Microsoft/Apple actively blocks a user functionality that the device and software is capable of... official or unofficial the developer demonstrated that a scenario can work..why go out of way to block it.. looks like this is a new trend for Google - maps on Windows Phone, youtube app on Windows Phone....
Would you have the same reaction if you were using undocumented APIs in Windows...
Microsoft is bad at many things, but until recently, they were very good at backward compatibility. They knew people were using undocumented APIs, so they went out of their way to preserve bug-for-bug compatibility in a lot of cases.
On the other hand, they also went out of their way to use undocumented APIs and API changes to give Word an advantage over Word Perfect....
MS has only been good at backwards compatibility when it is in their best interest. Usually because a major partner was the one using an undocumented API with millions of users. In this case it was a person hacking some code together on a product less than a month old with probably only a few thousand people using the app that broke.
To be glib: the remedy implemented in the market for buying a device in a retail store that doesn't quite do what you want is just to return it and get your $35 back.
Once you get to prices this low, the idea of "service" becomes somewhat different. It does what it does. We won't get traction with Google by whining about this sort of thing.
Again, in retail expecting "money back" because of a mistake in understanding the product is a normal part of doing business. "This shirt doesn't fit me." "Sorry, my husband wanted one in the other color." "I thought I could stream torrented files with it".
The point is that the distinction doesn't matter, so any argument (for or against) predicated on what the buyer expects or what the seller advertised is limited to the ability to refund the purchase price -- it's a dumb argument, basically. It does what it does.
Then why are they offering it in retail stores like best buy? Sucks that you buy something for feature X and few days later an update comes through getting rid of it. Does anyone know how hard is it to reverse this update?