Originally Posted by flagpole:
“Glad I didn't buy the app.
The developer will be pissed.”
I tried the app for a while but decided not to buy it because of the way it interacted with some apps when they wanted to force landscape. Maybe the dev improved it since I tried it, but it was a little glitchy for me and I decided that I'd make do and hope Google released an update that did this.
The thing is, you need a landscape start screen if you're going to release docks that can function for the viewing of video, etc. Because otherwise you're going to close the video and be stuck with a portrait launcher screen in landscape mode. It was pretty inevitable that Google would release an update.
The guy shouldn't be that pissed though - he's made a ton of cash that he wouldn't have made if Google had allowed landscape mode from the beginning, and also his app allows greater control - with it you can run apps that force landscape mode in portrait mode, and set individual permissions for each app.
He'll still make some money, he should just market it differently.