It doesn't "just work"

They "work", just not very pretty.

Updates are so slooow in coming.

 

The text and layouts automatically resized, but the developer must resize the images. One of the consequences of changing the resolution. Same thing happened with the iPhone 4.

 

maybe you should vent on the Whatsapp forum??

 

A few years? How would it take a few years, in not even a couple of months over hundreds of thousands of apps will have probably been recompiled for the new A8 in the new iPhones and the new screen resolutions surely by then

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Thousands of apps by the week are getting updated

 

iOS 8 has been out for, what, 9 days?
Sheesh have a bit of patience.

 

So, you made a thread to hammer on Apple, when the problem (for some) is third party apps not being updated as quickly as they would like?

 

Hmm I guess it wouldn't be as easy as using a tool to resize all images and repack the whole application. Just give it some time, devs will roll out what you want sooner or later

 

I don't have an iPhone 6 or 6 plus yet, but I do have a small handful of apps that I use on my 5s that haven't been updated since iOS 5.

Most of the popular apps will be updated in the first few months. Developers need to submit their changes and then Apple has to approve them. I'm guessing they've got a bit of a backlog right now.

 

The point was that they "just work" without any input from the developer. However, developers can improve their apps by optimising them for the new iPhones.

 

the whatsapp team is always slow as ... i think it took them over two months to update the keyboard for ios 7

 

I had to move over to Telegram during the iOS8 beta and have found I like it much better. Hello desktop access! But it's hard to get people to switch. Get the OP's frustration but it seems his ire is with Devs. WhatsApp has always been a bit slow in fixes & updates. It'll come eventually though. I wouldn't mind if a UI refresh came with it.

 

Only people to blame are the app devs. Xcode 6, was available to all devs back in June along with iOS 8 and an iOS 8 simulator to test them on. As for your comment about Apple saying "they just work" they do work. Just because a lazy dev is being lazy at updating is no fault of Apple's

 

And? Not many developers are going to spend resources developing for a phone's screen size that wasn't made public until 2 weeks before release. Most devs want an actual device to test on not just the simulater. The SDK did not provide the screen size information and releasing an app to take advantage of an unknown screen size without one bit of testing would be pretty dangerous from the dev's point of view.

 

What did Apple say that suggested that? They said the apps "just work". The apps work just fine. I haven't seen one not work because of the screen size.

 

I am seriously thinking about leaving WhatsApp as it is own by Facebook, but the main issue is exactly what you described that not many contacts are even considering it.

With iOS 8 I got rid of the Facebook App, as it had many bugs and the Messaging feature was disabled some updates ago. Now I just access it via the browser. Another difficult thing to have people move away from.

 

Umm...are we twins separated at birth? lol. I also deleted my FB app and just use the web browser that I have a home screen bookmark for. + you can still access your messages from there. I find that since I'm not getting notifications anymore from the app, I check it far less, which I like.

I got really annoyed with their constant updates but never told me what the heck they were updating. Just they were doing updates every 4 weeks.

 

I find that most apps work but it's slightly annoying when you look at the giant top bar. Some apps have it so blown up that it looks funny. I can live with it. I expect developers to update apps for ios8 and iphone 6/6+s soon.

 

They have to be optimized for iPhone 5 at least.

 

Facebook doesn't even care about Whatsapp, given that it competes with its other messaging app. Facebook would rather everyone use the Facebook Messenger App.