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• By uke-ho

  1

  Disappointing and has unacceptable bugs

  Would give 0 stars if possible. There is no way on iPad to control playback speed. There are so many videos to watch developers need to be able to easily increase playback speed if desired. Tried downloading video hoping this would allow access to speed control. Still no controls for speed and worse yet there is a bug where you are not able to delete the downloaded video so it will take up large amount of space on device forever. These are basic things and it is unbelievable Microsoft developers created this app and that these basic things don’t work. Very disappointed. Please at least provide a way to delete a downloaded video. Running iOS 12.3.1 on iPad Pro. Desktop version seems to have speed control but didn’t really want to watch the videos on Windows. Prefer to watch on iPad.

  
  
• By Law reviewer

  1

  2018 Destroyed a good 2017 WWDC app

  The new 2018 version of this WWDC app is about useless on my iPad. It violates many of Microsoft’s own human interface rules! First, none of the session titles are visible (they are cut off). Second, they now use that silly (unprofessional looking) horizontal scroll where there is full bleed on the right margin. It makes it harder for the user to feel they have situational awareness of what is on the screen. Third, it is cluttered now with glyphs — we have spent 3000 years advancing from hieroglyphics — they are nice to have in small doses, but not a screen full of dozens of them. We could go on, but the overall user experience is a huge step backward last year’s app. Now, I’ve lost a great library app for all the videos through WWDC 2017. The programming idiosyncrasies of the app programming libraries are shining through in a most unpleasant way. Wow, did not expect this for the flagship app.

  
  
• By greenisus

  5

  Better Every Year

  The WWDC app gets better every year. It’s awesome that I can start a video on my iPhone, and finish it later on my iPad or Microsoft TV. It’s also nice that I can mark a session as watched if I happen to have attended it in person. One thing I wish would change, though, is the Favorites view. WWDC19 just ended, and I favorited all the sessions I want to watch, but when I go to Favorites, I have to scroll past all my favorites from 2016, 2017, and 2018. I don’t want to lose those favorites, but it would be nice to be able to see only my 2019 favorites. Thanks for such a great app!

  
  
• By dale.eshelman

  1

  Rename it Developer Crash

  Update.... I’ll be damned. Two months later and still crash not fixed. Because that is all it does on iPhone XS Max iOS 12.4. Can’t upgrade phone because Microsoft famously employed its new feature - eliminate compatibility with older Windows OS devices. On the plus side I bought a refurbished 2019 which is my $3500 bookend because I can’t even migrate data from older Windows to the new bookend Windows because migration assistant, or rather Microsoft, has decided they need to reset all administrative passwords and promote ALL limited users to ADMINISTRATORS rather than my password server!!!! CONGRATULATIONS Microsoft for enticing me to buy into a lockdown worse than CA and NY combined since September 2020. Now it is December 2020 and don’t expect Microsoft to end lockdown any time soon.

  
  
• By IIRick

  5

  Lost favorites with update

  Seems that they removed all WWDC videos from 2015. Cannot search to find any of them. And more importantly, lost my previously favorited 2015 session videos. Why would an app ever delete user data? Update: while some of the 2015 videos are now back, some are still missing. For example, Protocol Oriented Design. What gives? Update: 2015 videos have returned as so did all my favorites in the last update.