A small rant....
So the latest update absolutely killed it for a lot of folks (not everyone), with it force closing on open. Then on top of that, he put this annoying ad right smack on the sms thread list saying (donate to us to remove this ad!).
Note that he does not put these ad infested copies in the market screenshots....
Anyway, he is getting a flood of bad PR over it. Well, I helped him with the FC issue by showing him that he had permissions set wrong (I got it working). So I asked, is this worth an ad free copy for helping you out?
Answer:
No.
Here are my emails:
Fair enough. My complaint was that he actually INCREASED the ads though, which I thought was tacky. I wasn't asking it to be ad free and never would have. He also seems to be busy enough to not remember me from another email from about 1 hour prior. Fair enough.
NOW he is interested in what I have to say.
...and that was the end of it. Several hours later, I thought about it, and wondered if the dev would be kind enough to help me out with an ad free copy, as I helped him out.
Now...
I don't ask for much. I don't even ask for donations. But that seems pretty poor behavior to me. I had UNINSTALLED this app and planned on stop using it as of last update, but reinstalled to help him out. I mean I beta tested Pocketshield for free and no expectations back when it first came to the Omnia--heck it didn't EVEN WORK for the first couple versions. But I helped enough to fix it, and got a free copy out of it. And thats not adware and much more costly.
I've got a pretty poor opinion of this dev--he's even let spam from spam bots pile up in his support forums that dates back for days.
He sure was on the ball and interested in what I had for him on what the problem was though!
So in short, I will still be moving on from ChompSMS, which I had come to like and was going to donate to, but I am not happy with how the program is being supported, and the dev apparently doesn't see it fit to reward one good deed with another which is telling.
At any rate, I'm not expecting anyone to stop using it, asking, or recommend you to. I just thought people should know about this situation before making the decision to donate. Whether or not it affects your decision, I don't know. It did for me.
On a final note, I don't know if there was a stealth update without a version change, or if a different ROM fixed it, but the FC issue stopped which is good news for ChompSMS users. However, you don't have to look hard to realize this was a very real issue for quite a few people.
So the latest update absolutely killed it for a lot of folks (not everyone), with it force closing on open. Then on top of that, he put this annoying ad right smack on the sms thread list saying (donate to us to remove this ad!).
Note that he does not put these ad infested copies in the market screenshots....
Anyway, he is getting a flood of bad PR over it. Well, I helped him with the FC issue by showing him that he had permissions set wrong (I got it working). So I asked, is this worth an ad free copy for helping you out?
Answer:
No.
Here are my emails:
me said:
Fair enough. My complaint was that he actually INCREASED the ads though, which I thought was tacky. I wasn't asking it to be ad free and never would have. He also seems to be busy enough to not remember me from another email from about 1 hour prior. Fair enough.
me said:
NOW he is interested in what I have to say.
me said:
me said:
me said:
...and that was the end of it. Several hours later, I thought about it, and wondered if the dev would be kind enough to help me out with an ad free copy, as I helped him out.
me said:So being that I helped narrow this down (and I've read reports of others with this same issue, esp. on Nexus One)--is it worth an ad free copy?
Now...
I don't ask for much. I don't even ask for donations. But that seems pretty poor behavior to me. I had UNINSTALLED this app and planned on stop using it as of last update, but reinstalled to help him out. I mean I beta tested Pocketshield for free and no expectations back when it first came to the Omnia--heck it didn't EVEN WORK for the first couple versions. But I helped enough to fix it, and got a free copy out of it. And thats not adware and much more costly.
I've got a pretty poor opinion of this dev--he's even let spam from spam bots pile up in his support forums that dates back for days.
He sure was on the ball and interested in what I had for him on what the problem was though!
So in short, I will still be moving on from ChompSMS, which I had come to like and was going to donate to, but I am not happy with how the program is being supported, and the dev apparently doesn't see it fit to reward one good deed with another which is telling.
At any rate, I'm not expecting anyone to stop using it, asking, or recommend you to. I just thought people should know about this situation before making the decision to donate. Whether or not it affects your decision, I don't know. It did for me.
On a final note, I don't know if there was a stealth update without a version change, or if a different ROM fixed it, but the FC issue stopped which is good news for ChompSMS users. However, you don't have to look hard to realize this was a very real issue for quite a few people.