Just poor communication, they're actually saying anyone who responds to their tweet with the hashtag may be featured in some May 4th Disney Special, and the ToS are implicit.
Isn't this technically not necessary as tweets are public domain?
not one mention or shout out to Apple who has been doing the left/right gesture for quite some time in iOS and the bottom navigation gesture since the iPhone X
We have several years of experience developing UIs and SDKs using Qt / QML for the in-flight entertainment space.
We are exploring the use of Qt / QML to build iOS and Android applications. Some of our apps use a server-side component written in NodeJS. We have a few apps on the stores right now. See our site for details. We are interested in short term/long term contract opportunities and can begin ASAP.
https://appleid.apple.com
Try going here and removing the phone number from the "Phone Numbers" section.
I still have friends who try to message me and their iOS assumes I'm using iMessage. The "retry as SMS" feature is the only method that works.
I would agree that the Blackberry experience for app developers is indeed inferior to that of Android and iOS.
Here are my observations:
The Blackberry Vendor Portal.
1. App submission
An absolutely dated interface for submitting applications. One thing that really upsets me is that Blackberry did not segregate the interface for pre-BB10 applications and BB10 applications. Throughout the submission process, I was constantly given the option to submit my Cascades/BB10 application as a pre-BB10 bundle. Even after I submitted my application as a BB10 application, I was given reports that someone had downloaded my application on their pre-BB10 device. How could this happen?
2. Viewing reports
Again, a dated interface for viewing reports. Reports are only produced on-demand either as a ZIP file of CSVs or a static GIF that looks like it was exported with excel. I could imagine those who rely on BB apps as a source of income have written excel applications to process this data into a user-friendly format. Both iOS and Android have reports in beautiful charted format directly in their app portal.
3. Responding to users
I had a review on my applications in which the reviewer was requesting a feature. I did have this feature in my application, but due to a ux flaw, it was not easily recognizable. I would have loved to drop the user a comment notifying them of this feature. Regardless of denying/approving the review, I think this is a fantastic feature in the Android (Google Play) model.
iOS and Android app portals are built for the common developer. As they are built for the common consumer. Blackberry vendor portal is built for the enterprise, very much like their original phones.
4. I would consider myself a "Qt/QML expert", so from a programming standpoint, I find it much easier to convert complex UI designs into working code. This is thanks to the wonderful Cascades framework with QML syntax (originally built by The Astonishing Tribe, acquired by BB a few years ago). I think it's much easier to deploy code with BB compared to iOS/Android. This is of course dependent on the developer.
5. Blackberry, prior to releasing the Z10 in the US, released an "Application Generator". This generator converted RSS feeds into running, "native" applications for BB10. This flooded the BB10 app world with garbage applications. There are still hundreds of applications on the store that are blatant rip-offs of Android applications (search Maps on your Z10 and you will see several GMaps rebundles)
6. App services like advertisements and push notifications are still not up to par as iAd or Admob, and APNS.
Are you kidding me? Regardless of privacy, this is incredibly useful. I would love having even the slightest amount relevance with the iAds popping up on my iAds.
+ new releases, right on time.
+ high quality (on wifi)
- terrible to use on my commute 1hr. seems like the app doesn't buffer data properly for low signal scenarios (pandora does!)
- when a song doesn't buffer properly, i "pause" the song and play local music. when the song buffers it stops my music and starts playing. this get's ridiculously annoying.
- i've noticed my battery life being drained with the rdio app running (not playing or streaming) in the background. this may have been fixed in recent updates.
imo, these guys have a lot to learn from pandora on ux