GovernmentYard wrote:
Joans wrote:
*coughs* rooted *coughs*
Quite. There is a wider issue though - this is a new app, 2.2 has been around since the dinosaurs were in charge and it still doesn't install to SD. A free app that predates Froyo I can accept, and will uninstall if necessary. But apps I've paid for and apps released yesterday should be appropriate for the current OS.
I'm rooted but it's less hassle to do without Skype than to fuck about with app2sd. And given that I love the platform and 99.9% of Android users aren't rooted, I reckon I'm better off banging the drum about this. Looking in the reviews on marketplace everyone agrees with me apart from the "yay skype at last! 5/5" posts, which might as well say "cheese whirlwind haberdashery" for all the use they are.
I can't argue with any of this, people shouldn't have to root their phones just to be able to use them properly, and new apps should support apps2sd unless there's a good reason for them not to.The question is, is there a good reason?
When I installed cyanogen5 (based on eclair) on my g1, apps2sd was one of the best things about it, I'd always been running out of space and now I could fill my phone with crappy apps that I'd only ever use once. Then cyanogen 6 came out, with no support for apps2sd because it was already in froyo, problem was, in comparison to what had come before, it was terrible. I fully understand that google had to do it like this, because if they started asking people to create ext partitions on their sd cards people would just stop buying the phones, but this meant that you couldn't run apps while connected to your pc, shortcuts to apps would take ages to appear, and widgets were pretty hopeless as well. Now that might just have been because it was a g1, rather than a desire or whatever, but I can see why in some cases it might just be easier for the developer to not support it.
Anyway, this does beg the question, how much space does the desire have for apps, I'm guessing not enough if you need to install stuff to the sd card.
Just to make this a reasonably informative post, it appears the market is now displaying all the costs in pounds (with an approximate figure if that's not the actual currency).
I'm sure there was something else I was going to post, but it took me ages to swype out that first paragraph and I've forgotten what it was.