CloudatCost Mobile App Released

@Dashrender said:

What no Windows Phone version? lol

Yes. I'm sure that was shocking.

gjacobse

Haven't read the release yet - but I hope they have a iOS app in the pipeline.

@g.jacobse said:

Haven't read the release yet - but I hope they have a iOS app in the pipeline.

There was no mention of it so far. maybe @charlie @AmanBhogal can provide more information on that.

Dashrender

Both an IOS and Windows 10 Universal app version would be great!

Wonder if they will release it for blackberry? Just kidding.

IRJ

@thecreativeone91 said:

Wonder if they will release it for blackberry? Just kidding.

I just downloaded the app for Palm OS

Sadly the App does not show the names of the instances that you gave it. It only shows some number ID they use to identify them. Kinda makes the app a little useless.

Danp

@thecreativeone91 Well... it is a beta version, so hopefully they will continue to improve on it.

scottalanmiller

I saw the announcement and was all excited and then saw only a Google link. So... not so useful to any of us.

Dashrender

I'm frankly surprised it's only on Android right now.. IOS normally seems to get everything first...
glad to see that change for once.

thanksajdotcom

I installed it. Haven't tried it out yet. @scottalanmiller, "not useful to any of us" is a pretty broad-sweeping statement, considering how many Android users are on ML...

thanksajdotcom

@Dashrender said:

I'm frankly surprised it's only on Android right now.. IOS normally seems to get everything first...
glad to see that change for once.

Not everything, but most things...but this is changing considering Android has something like twice the market saturation of Apple right now...

Dashrender

@thanksajdotcom said:

@Dashrender said:

I'm frankly surprised it's only on Android right now.. IOS normally seems to get everything first...
glad to see that change for once.

Not everything, but most things...but this is changing considering Android has something like twice the market saturation of Apple right now...

Sadly this doesn't seem to matter. Since most people in positions of power to decide where to program these things seem to have iDevices, not Android ones. Even as techy as @scottalanmiller is he still uses an idevice.

thanksajdotcom

@Dashrender said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

@Dashrender said:

I'm frankly surprised it's only on Android right now.. IOS normally seems to get everything first...
glad to see that change for once.

Not everything, but most things...but this is changing considering Android has something like twice the market saturation of Apple right now...

Sadly this doesn't seem to matter. Since most people in positions of power to decide where to program these things seem to have iDevices, not Android ones. Even as techy as @scottalanmiller is he still uses an idevice.

Yeah, and I do admit Android had a lot of stability issues during the Gingerbread era, and even some issues during the Honeycomb/3.x era. The 4.x generation has been rock solid.

JaredBusch

Android is simply not clean enough. Too many little things are such a pain in the ass. That is why it is not recommended at higher levels.

Eventually it will get solid enough that I will change my recommendation, but it has not yet.

Last week's example:

I (unexpectedly) migrated a client to Office 365.
I opened the mail settings on my iPhone and updated the connection information for the email account and was receiving mail. Done.
I opened the account settings on the owner's Android phone and found I was unable to change one of the settings (username i think). I was forced to delete the account and add it back in.

One of these processes is good and one is a pain in the ass.

@thanksajdotcom said:

@Dashrender said:

I'm frankly surprised it's only on Android right now.. IOS normally seems to get everything first...
glad to see that change for once.

Not everything, but most things...but this is changing considering Android has something like twice the market saturation of Apple right now...

I believe the reason for the market share has something to do with how inexpensive their (droidz) devices are and pay as you go/gophone type service.

Most tech folk, atleast in my experience, prefer an iThisorthat for stability etc. that being said....maybe they're still developing the iOS app. that'l be fun.

Dashrender

We're definitely seeing a shift in who uses Android. Much to my amazement half of my doctors have switched away from iPhones to Android devices. I'm not really sure why they are doing this.

Some have said that their children have moved to Androids so they want to be there too, others have had issues with syncing, etc their iPhones so they are leaving for that reason.

Over the past 18 months I moved from a hardline hate Apple/iDevices to I don't care, have whatever you want, but I can't support your iDevice unless you want to buy me one so I can learn it - and they haven't done yet.

nadnerB

There's been a massive swing to Android here.
I like iOS, Android and WindowsPhone for different reasons. They all have their place.

I switch from an iPhone to android. I hated android before but kitkat (unless it's been modified too much by the OEM) has changed a lot of things and is much better now, I like it better than iOS.

scottalanmiller

Most everyone I've seen has either stuck with what they had or moved to iOS devices. Not many, but what little movement I've seen is mostly still away from Android. But overall, I have little visibility into handheld device trends.