An open letter to the makers of the Google+ and Facebook Android-apps
Dear Google+ and Facebook,
Your Android apps both suck.
I have completely uninstalled the G+ app from my Android phone because not only did the auto-upload function suffer from Alzheimers, the photo sharing only showed the first fifteen photos you’d ever taken and all sorts of useful features were missing. Not only that.
It also got extraordinarily greedy with space. The last G+ app update pushed the total app size above the dreaded 10 megabyte mark and placed itself firmly in the lead as the heaviest app on my phone. Still, none of the features worked like they were supposed to and since I own a HTC WildFire S which has about the same amount of storage space as a NES cartridge, something had to go.
Goog: Call me when you do a lite-version of the app that only uploads pictures. The G+ mobile site is much better.
So is Facebook’s, by the way (don’t start getting comfortable now, Zuckerberg, it’s your turn!). The Facebook app is just as careless with my precious phone storage space and only marginally more useful than G+
Such as with photo sharing, where you for some reason can only share one picture at a time (the G+ app let you select eight photos at a time). And it’s not because Facebook’s app is against photo sharing, because every time I boot it up, it forcibly displays the last six photos my contacts uploaded, wasting bandwidth, loading time and my patience in the process.
Also, notifications and new updates tend to take a while for these apps. It’s really puzzling to me why the G+ and Facebook mobile sites are both much faster and better for reading your stream, commenting on posts and viewing photo galleries. Boggles the mind, that does.
So please - Google and Facebook. If you want us to adopt to the new mobile media, then please, make something that works. Something that doesn’t make me long for a keyboard and a mouse. Something that lets me do phone stuff that phone users would do, and not bother me with all sorts of useless bells and whistles and functions that barely work.
Please.
Yours truly,
That guy
