The Benefits of an Open Market, Revisited

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Anonymous Reader for this link. ]

“The appeal of the ?instant publish?, for a developer, is that a
bugfix can be pushed out faster. When I originally wrote the
previously mentioned post I was writing from the point of view of
an Android developer that had never published an application on the
Apple Appstore. For the past 18 months I have been working as a
?Mobile Applications Engineer?, which basically means I am
responsible for writing and maintaining my companies mobile apps on
both iOS and Android. I recently ran into the issue where there was
a bug in an iOS app that I had published. The app was technically
working? as in it didn?t crash? but one functionality of the
application was not working and I failed to catch that in my own
testing. The application was approved by Apple and published on a
Friday afternoon.

“I did not get any feedback on the application until Monday
morning. I turned on my Atrix 2 after waking up and saw 15 emails
with reports of a bug in the iOS app. I had no idea what went
wrong, and did not have an iOS device at home to test with so I
immediately went to work to try and figure out the issue. By the
time I arrived at my job I had received at least 10 more emails
about the issue. It took me less than 15 minutes to reproduce the
issue, 15 minutes to figure out a solution, and another half hour
to build test builds and put them on a few devices and verify that
the issue was indeed fixed.”

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