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Well that now makes the second Twitter product without an Android launch strategy. The first, Vine, looks like it'll flame out by the time they ever toss a hal

by blocke 13y ago

Well that now makes the second Twitter product without an Android launch strategy. The first, Vine, looks like it'll flame out by the time they ever toss a half broken app across the corporate firewall. Are they running out of cash or something? Their competition doesn't seem to be having a problem with supporting more than one platform. Edit: I'd also like the point out the irony of hitting "Play Full Tracks", picking Rdio, then immediately being presented with a Facebook logo and login option but no Twitter SSO. /facepalm

k-mcgrady 13y ago
>> "Well that now makes the second Twitter product without an Android launch strategy" They do have the website which works fine on mobile.
- blocke 13y ago
  That's a piss poor Android strategy. And as a side note I'm still getting this on Android: http://i.imgur.com/Ox0BwML.png http://i.imgur.com/Ox0BwML.png Hopefully it's just a cache issue.
  - creativityhurts 13y ago
    I'm getting that on iPad as well. I guess the site is not ready.
varikin 13y ago
Well, that is the Rdio login which supports username/password or Facebook. And yes, that is hilarious.
mkr-hn 13y ago
Nothing would please me more than people moving away from mobile-specific apps toward web applications.
- blocke 13y ago
  I'd agree with you but we are not there yet. I've yet to see a beautiful web app on mobile not be a sluggish buggy mess. Twitter's mobile web app at first look decent but it's sooooo sllllllllooooowww and unresponsive on a quad core phone. Forecast.io's mobile site is the first time I've seen any app or browser instance cause a phone to lock up and never recover. I'm suspecting that's a GPU driver bug.
  - mkr-hn 13y ago
    I don't use mobile sites, so I don't have any perspective on that. I'm just irritated at all the things that are mobile-only when they don't need to be. The best way to get the web to look better on mobile is to encourage developers to start thinking about the web again.

by blocke 13y ago

k-mcgrady 13y ago

>> "Well that now makes the second Twitter product without an Android launch strategy" They do have the website which works fine on mobile.

blocke 13y ago
That's a piss poor Android strategy. And as a side note I'm still getting this on Android: http://i.imgur.com/Ox0BwML.png http://i.imgur.com/Ox0BwML.png Hopefully it's just a cache issue.
- creativityhurts 13y ago
  I'm getting that on iPad as well. I guess the site is not ready.

varikin 13y ago

Well, that is the Rdio login which supports username/password or Facebook. And yes, that is hilarious.

mkr-hn 13y ago

Nothing would please me more than people moving away from mobile-specific apps toward web applications.

blocke 13y ago
I'd agree with you but we are not there yet. I've yet to see a beautiful web app on mobile not be a sluggish buggy mess. Twitter's mobile web app at first look decent but it's sooooo sllllllllooooowww and unresponsive on a quad core phone. Forecast.io's mobile site is the first time I've seen any app or browser instance cause a phone to lock up and never recover. I'm suspecting that's a GPU driver bug.
- mkr-hn 13y ago
  I don't use mobile sites, so I don't have any perspective on that. I'm just irritated at all the things that are mobile-only when they don't need to be. The best way to get the web to look better on mobile is to encourage developers to start thinking about the web again.