Why is Apple’s first Android app a lame app?

“In my view, Apple failed massively in their first Android app attempt for the above reasons. I am not going to look at the code deeper to be more disappointed. At least it is time for them to do a retrospective on this massive failure.”

Does this app actually have bugs or doesn’t work as advertised? Does it have security issues, privacy issues? Does it crash? That would be what I would call a “massive failure”.

I am confused as to why this app is lame. You start by analyzing the Play Store reviews, then proceed to download the app, and suddenly your article shifts to a technical analysis. Do you think end users will notice that the license is hardcoded? Or that the code has logs and it’s not obfuscated?

It’s obvious the code wasn’t initially developed by them, this app is just a different skin of the original one. Perhaps they subcontracted the company who made it and they were lazy, perhaps Apple bought the source code and changed themselves.

But does it really matter? Certainly this is not a super big product that they would need to use their best engineers to work on. This is just a bullshit app to help people migrate their data. And, in the end, Apple helped some random company win some money, instead of just really copying something that was made before. Win-win.

There’s the Android trolling on the Play Store, which is what it is: trolling. But then I see these analysis on the code as if they serve to justify the trolling. This is just nitpicking. People don’t like the concept of an Apple app on the Play Store. It’s understandable.

If this app has bugs, security issues, privacy issues, crashes, then I would rate it as lame. Perhaps it has, I’m not an iOS user and I can’t test it myself. But the kind of lazy programming presented here does not necessarily make an app lame, nor does it attest to the talents of Apple as an engineering team.