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I mounted my iPhone 5 on my bike this morning, and took a Hyperlapse recording on the bikeride from home to the office (15 minutes).

When I reached the office and stopped the recording, the app would just hang with the text "Processing".. I left it processing for about 4 hours, with no progressbar or anything like it. I ended up giving up, closing the application and rebooting the iPhone. When I launched the program again, it had an error similar to "something bad happened" with a couple of options..

I don't think I'll try be using this program again.



That seems like a pretty extreme response. I know most apps only get one chance to fail before people uninstall them, but giving up on the whole app seems a bit much. It's new technology, and not trivial either. Why not give them a little more chance to improve before entirely shooting it down?


Yeah, because normally programs are perfect on launch, and the best way to have progress is to quit using them forever on the first bug...

I'm not even sure what this response has to do with the hacker mentality...




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