Latest Apple IOS crashes the ED status page

[Hooplah]

Greetings,

With the latest release of IOS 9.0.2 (13A452) for the iPad the apple store ED status app crashes to the main iPad screen. Reloading or a soft reset doesn't resolve it. Looks like Apple did it to us again. It might also be my setup if others don't have the same problem. We'll see.

Regards

 

[Cataclysm72]

iOS 9 has been in beta for months. If Frontier were taking Apple any kind of serious, they had plenty of time to get it working for the new operating system. The fact that the ED status app has absolutely no functional value whatsoever indicates that App Presence was more important to them that actual providing a service. If I were Apple, i'd never approve the damn thing for "Lack of Functionality" (which is a very real rule for the Apple Store approval process)

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/rejections/

Don't blame Apple for it.

PS. The app is working fine on my iOS 9 iPhone5s, but that might be because i'm running the latest beta IOS.

 

[Hooplah]

Tried it also on my IOS 9 iPhone 5s with the same default to the main screen.

Being an X-Plane fan with lots of expensive remote iPad apps connecting to the PC running X-Plane I've seen them fail with an Apple IOS upgrade. I'm not one to blame either Apple or the app vendor when this occurs other than to report when an app no longer works. Given my limited opinion (for what it is worth) Apple should give the app vendors who sell their products in their store a heads-up per the changes which effect their products and the time to adjust to them. But I don't see Apple doing this. They are serious about keeping a tight control on how software is used in their products and often the vendors suffer because of this. So do we.

Many don't like this and just do a jailbreak to get everything to work. But that requires talent and Apple applies security to their upgrades which also seems to effect the honest consumers and the software we expect to continue to work.

Regards

 

[Cataclysm72]

Apple should give the app vendors who sell their products in their store a heads-up per the changes which effect their products and the time to adjust to them. But I don't see Apple doing this. They are serious about keeping a tight control on how software is used in their products and often the vendors suffer because of this. So do we.

I take it you are not a licensed apple developer. Apple iOS9 dev kits, simulators, betas and prereleases have been readily available. But you need to be a registered (and paying) developer. Which is probably why "you don't see apple doing this".

Other than that, i agree that a new OS should not break recent apps.

 

[Tiamat]

iOS 9 has been in beta for months. If Frontier were taking Apple any kind of serious, they had plenty of time to get it working for the new operating system. The fact that the ED status app has absolutely no functional value whatsoever indicates that App Presence was more important to them that actual providing a service. If I were Apple, i'd never approve the damn thing for "Lack of Functionality" (which is a very real rule for the Apple Store approval process)

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/rejections/

Don't blame Apple for it.

PS. The app is working fine on my iOS 9 iPhone5s, but that might be because i'm running the latest beta IOS.

No, blame Apple. An OS upgrade that breaks backwards compatibility is totally their fault and iOS 9 has broken quite a few apps from what I have heard.

By your logic every time there is even one windows/iOS/Android update all developers who are "any kind of serious" should run their entire QA process again so basically QA never ends which just isn't viable. The vendor should not be breaking backwards comparability as that is a total fail in the OS world.

 

[DullingWine]

Whoever's fault it is, I think we can agree that Frontier are the ones who are going to have to fix it (and I can confirm its broken for me too).

Broken or not however, the app is very poor with precious little content. It's quite stylish though - a lot of missed potential.

 

[Hooplah]

Nope, I'm not an Apple developer. I am a user. But when I pay money for my iPad apps and they don't work with an Apple IOS upgrade then there is a problem. I expect Apple and the app vendors to resolve them. Maybe I'm asking too much and should go back to my Win 7 laptop. Given the current technology Windows 10 and pull apart tablet PCs Apple needs to reconsider their competition. It costs $99/year to use Microsoft Office on an iPad. I've already paid for it on a laptop and desktop. You do the math.

 

[Cataclysm72]

I now realise the 'don't blame' statement isn't what i actually intended to say. And I do apologise. I do firmly believe that any OS update should not break backwards compatibility.

I just wanted to clear that up, as I got the feeling people are shooting me in the face for what I said here.