I’ve never seen an app go so dramatically bad as the latest update of Scrabble for iPhone. (Don’t get it; don’t update if you have an earlier version.)
It had an average four-star rating across all versions. But look at the ratings for the current release.
The new version feels like a UIWebView app — that is, I think it’s mostly HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The old version — which wasn’t perfect, but was playable and fun — felt like a native iPhone app.
I’m tempted to say that there’s a truth here, that UIWebView-based apps always suck. But I’m not sure that that’s really the problem — the problem is that it’s a really, really sucky UIWebView-based app.
The biggest issue is that the main game play is super-difficult. It’s hard to read and hard to manipulate.
I would love to write a Scrabble game for people who love Scrabble. Get a great designer who loves words (Neven Mrgan would be choice one). Imagine how awesome it could be! But I’m not going to write that game, or any other.
In the meantime, I wish I could give this version zero stars.
I’ve never seen an app go so dramatically bad as the latest update of Scrabble for iPhone. (Don’t get it; don’t update if you have an earlier version.)
It had an average four-star rating across all versions. But look at the ratings for the current release.
The new version feels like a UIWebView app — that is, I think it’s mostly HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The old version — which wasn’t perfect, but was playable and fun — felt like a native iPhone app.
I’m tempted to say that there’s a truth here, that UIWebView-based apps always suck. But I’m not sure that that’s really the problem — the problem is that it’s a really, really sucky UIWebView-based app.
The biggest issue is that the main game play is super-difficult. It’s hard to read and hard to manipulate.
I would love to write a Scrabble game for people who love Scrabble. Get a great designer who loves words (Neven Mrgan would be choice one). Imagine how awesome it could be! But I’m not going to write that game, or any other.
In the meantime, I wish I could give this version zero stars.
If you read the article that Joe linked to… you would know that using UIWebView to build an app, which is what this article cautions against, is how you build an “app” with Freeway.
Walter
On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Julie Maxwell email@hidden wrote:
I don’t mean to be blond… But why "using Freeway to build and iOS app… " I don’t see freeway mentioned.
Julie
On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Walter Lee Davis email@hidden wrote:
I’ve never seen an app go so dramatically bad as the latest update of Scrabble for iPhone. (Don’t get it; don’t update if you have an earlier version.)
It had an average four-star rating across all versions. But look at the ratings for the current release.
The new version feels like a UIWebView app — that is, I think it’s mostly HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The old version — which wasn’t perfect, but was playable and fun — felt like a native iPhone app.
I’m tempted to say that there’s a truth here, that UIWebView-based apps always suck. But I’m not sure that that’s really the problem — the problem is that it’s a really, really sucky UIWebView-based app.
The biggest issue is that the main game play is super-difficult. It’s hard to read and hard to manipulate.
I would love to write a Scrabble game for people who love Scrabble. Get a great designer who loves words (Neven Mrgan would be choice one). Imagine how awesome it could be! But I’m not going to write that game, or any other.
In the meantime, I wish I could give this version zero stars.
Gotcha, I had a feeling that was it… Like I said blond moment…
thanks
J
On Jul 30, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Walter Lee Davis email@hidden wrote:
If you read the article that Joe linked to… you would know that using UIWebView to build an app, which is what this article cautions against, is how you build an “app” with Freeway.
Walter
On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Julie Maxwell email@hidden wrote:
I don’t mean to be blond… But why "using Freeway to build and iOS app… " I don’t see freeway mentioned.
Julie
On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Walter Lee Davis email@hidden wrote:
I’ve never seen an app go so dramatically bad as the latest update of Scrabble for iPhone. (Don’t get it; don’t update if you have an earlier version.)
It had an average four-star rating across all versions. But look at the ratings for the current release.
The new version feels like a UIWebView app — that is, I think it’s mostly HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The old version — which wasn’t perfect, but was playable and fun — felt like a native iPhone app.
I’m tempted to say that there’s a truth here, that UIWebView-based apps always suck. But I’m not sure that that’s really the problem — the problem is that it’s a really, really sucky UIWebView-based app.
The biggest issue is that the main game play is super-difficult. It’s hard to read and hard to manipulate.
I would love to write a Scrabble game for people who love Scrabble. Get a great designer who loves words (Neven Mrgan would be choice one). Imagine how awesome it could be! But I’m not going to write that game, or any other.
In the meantime, I wish I could give this version zero stars.
