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Originally Posted by andy_m
Agreed. Which is why I posed a question. So tell me.
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My question was what is so different between the US app and the Virgin app that it's taken 2 years to resolve? It is two years since the US android app launched.
If you'd like me to rephrase, what has taken 1 year from the Virgin announcement to resolve?
Perhaps rather than suggesting things without actually ever saying them, those that know the answer to my genuine questions - what has taken so long, why, and can we expect the functionality to ever improve to the point where it matches the obsolete app it has at long last replaced - could provide them?
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The release in the US has no impact on when the VM would be released, your assumption is that they began working on it then.
No one outside VM management and the team working on the app knows when work started or how much effort was involved.
VM decided that the iOS app had priority (understandable at that point) then priorities may have changed from the Android app. We don't know if they started 1 year ago or last week.
Would going into the details of Java programming, DRM and streaming video really help
With regards to functionality, yes you are missing a piece of functionality previously available on a different app.
A functional specification and brief were created for the new app during which streaming over 3g was given a lower priority or it was decided that it is not required at this point.
Personally I think it should have been given a higher priority, 12 months to add streaming seems a little excessive, I don't do any video work in android apps at all but from what I have read I know it can be complicated, though later android release were supposed to help solve the complexity.
J