As much as I love Mailbox's flow for handling my email, I can't get over the performance issues and random crashes with the app. After a few weeks of usage the app slows down on launch and becomes a chore to use.
In contrast, Outlook (previously Acompli) is very stable. It may require more taps to do something like move an email to a specific label, but at least the app performs well and hasn't crashed on me once.
The iPad 1 still runs a surprising number of modern apps. My son plays newish games like Angry Birds Star Wars 2 or Asphalt Heat 7 without crashes or minimal lag. Not bad for a 4 year old device with only 256 Megs of RAM.
I'm not sure what apps you're running, but I haven't had the same experience. If the app can be downloaded from the store and doesn't prevent you from opening it on older devices (ex: CSR Classic) it'll run just fine.
The browser on my iPad 1 crashes constantly now (running the newer OS). Are you running iOS5 or the OS it came with? Do you do much web browsing on it?
Me too and this is frustrating. With 64bit processor we would expect bigger ram since data grow it's size.
1GB seems too small and I fear I'll hit the memory size wall again too soon. May be the next iPad will have a bigger ram.
Good point. I haven't done much browsing on it in a while, it's mostly used for my son's apps. I'll need to play around with that a bit. It's running the OS 5.1.1.
I experience the same crashing issues. Usually with Safari.
It's ok though. It's a 4 year old device I've used literally every day since launch day. I'm pretty ok with how far its gotten me and am surprised it has survived given how much abuse I throw at it.
A lot of the engineers making games don't want to do anything else. They're willing to accept a lower rate of pay to stay in the industry. When they look for other opportunities, they're usually just moving from one games company to another. Since there a lot less games companies than there are companies that employee engineers in general, there is less competition and less pressure to pay the same rates as engineers may make at companies like Google or Apple.
Since iOS allowed saving web pages as icons on the home screen, I've had a link to Hacker News on the first page of apps on my iPhone. iOS looks for an image in a specific location and will use that as the icon for the bookmark. If it can't find one, it'll take a screenshot of the home page.
Since updating to iOS 6, my home screen bookmark icon for Hacker News has started changing to the icons for websites that HN links to. For example, my icon currently is a purple 'Slate' logo after reading a story at Slate.com. The only way to change this is to recreate the bookmark until this happens again.
It'd be great if we could get a HN icon that iOS would use instead of failing to the default and now changing often.
Implementing this is as easy as placing specifically named and sized images in the root directory of the domain.
If you've never interviewed someone before you should speak to someone in HR group to review the types of things you CAN'T ask. Asking questions about religion, family, health could result in a lawsuit.
End users at large enterprise companies have zero say in the support browsers of that organization. These policies are put in place by their IT organization which in some cases manages all applications and patches that are pushed down to an individual's machines. In those large companies even Windows patches are managed in house and not through the standard Windows update process. I think those companies will easily stomach an additional charge for IE6 since they're used to paying for everything else. That said, I'm sure they'll use their size to attempt to negotiate themselves a better price.
I agree, but I believe it helps for Apple's employees to know they won't get away with a user experience like that under Jobs. They've got smart people, the ability to get things done, and they know what specific areas cannot be compromised.
There's a decent amount of overlap among the feeds I read. I would love to see Google Reader combine any articles that point to the same link into a single thread.
In contrast, Outlook (previously Acompli) is very stable. It may require more taps to do something like move an email to a specific label, but at least the app performs well and hasn't crashed on me once.