The Amazon Kindle app forWindows Phone 8got an update today . It ’s a good one , too , fix the dire three - sided letterboxing and give the app a more Metro - y tile . But it ’s massively late , and tripped over itself coming out the gate , too . In a way , it ’s a perfect encapsulation of everything wrong with Windows Phone 8 so far .
WP8 was releasedon October 26th , 2012 . Today is January 29th , 2013 . For more than three months , one of the most widely used and authoritative apps on any political program sit there , optimized for the old 800×480 Windows Phone 7 resolution / facet proportion , looking silly on any new WP8 sound that load it . It was n’t alone there , with other notables like Netflix , Rdio , and Epicurious either just recently buzz off their full WP8 updates , or remain without . Spotify ’s third party WP7 app has n’t even been updated to be usable on WP8 .
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show that back to yourself . It ’s insane . Major apps and services are saying to themselves , “ Well , our app looks like crap and does n’t perform quite correctly on all these new headphone coming out , but hell , it can wait . ” Because Windows Phone matters enough to be on — just not enough to actually taste . That ’s not the uncollectible affair , but it ’s been a tortuously slow creep constantly threatening to luxate into stagnation .
There are more tangible hiccup too . On my phone , andjudging from brushup , on a mass of other phones , too , the update just wear the app . I got the presentment on the Store go roofing tile that there were app updates for me , set out rouse when I saw Kindle was one of them , downloaded it , and through the magic of technology my Kindle app stop work out . Great . exploit the icon would just boot me right back to the house or app list screen , and the tile on the home screenland did n’t even alter to the new logo . Rebooting the telephone set gave the app a half - second at heart of the app before crashing out ; it was all right after uninstalling and re - set up ( after getting over a communication error with the Store ) .
That experience is n’t quite indicative of WP8 as a whole , which is in reality remarkably stable most of the time — more so than you ’re believably used to , in fact . But having used it asmy everyday phonesince launch , you ’ll see frost - ups and OS - level screwups in weird plaza , under low-cal workloads , which is more or less the opposite of where you see them in iOS and Android . It hold you the sense that you stumble over a loose wire or a bug rather than just surcharge your machine , which is actually room more frustrative .
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And you’re able to squeeze all of that out of this one , much welcome Kindle app update , which gets down to the lesson for WP8 adopters , more or less . The OS is getting there . Slowly . Damn slowly . And even when it make something secure going , it ca n’t help but highlight how far it has to go .
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