Post all of your App complaints here (AKA, the Darwin Award thread) - several merged

[Willdo7474]

Anyone else having problems running the new apps? When I first run them my Zune reboots. After reboot then I get "item missing or can't be played"

Edit: I deleted them from my collection and reinstalled and they are now working... ...phew I thought my "experimenting" with Doom was going to cause problems with new apps.

Anyhow, Labyrinth is really cool!!!!

[CrowdAds]

[Strider_Aus]

Nope. All running smooth here. Dave, congratz to the team on Labyrinth and Solitaire. Solitaire looks great and is nice and smooth. Labyrinth is awesome! Can't wait to show my kids that one - my wife just bought last holiday at an Op shop some of the old retro ball-bearing cube puzzles this is based on (where you guide the bearings into slots).

COOL !

[timmahcheese]

Very well done games. Solitaire is beautiful and labyrinth is very long.... Props to the devs!

[Curiouss]

Maybe its time to allow some 3rd party apps into the marketplace

[tsupersonic]

Dammit, I wish the timer feature would have functions what to do when time expires, like play a song, or beep, or sleep (sleep timer please!)

[Stujoe]

A sleep time would be something I would indeed use.

[Olley]

I'd love it if you could add a shutdown (or sleep) command to the bottom of a playlist.

[Mr. Popo]

I see the stopwatch in the apps section, but its not under "new" section, but none of the other ones show up

[syst3m]

I have a feeling that a Windows Live Messenger app is coming sometime soon (few weeks to few months) too. iPhone/iPod touch app slated for June I think, so homegrown device should be coming first, right? Anyways can't wait to try out the other new apps released today.

[lem7]

So Dave now that the 3 apps came out today does the "soon" also applies to the other apps coming or is the status back to "later"? 0.O

[Mr. Popo]

ok they all show up now, but none are in "new"

[syst3m]

Originally Posted by lem7

So Dave now that the 3 apps came out today does the "soon" also applies to the other apps coming or is the status back to "later"? 0.O

Originally Posted by DaveMac-MS

Nah, not going to get into a "more than" or "less than" game. Nice try though.

We have more apps to come, we're aiming to get more consistent with releases, let's leave it at that...

Cheers, Dave.

Good sign of more apps somewhere between "soon" and "later".

[walker]

thank god for solitaire

[snanime]

the stopwatch is off the effin chain, very useful and cool UI

[lip]

Originally Posted by snanime

the stopwatch is off the effin chain, very useful and cool UI

What do you use it for that makes it "off the effin chain"?

[Nightstar]

Originally Posted by DaveMac-MS

It takes a while for the content to propagate through the servers. All should be available to all users in a few hours I believe.

Cheers, Dave.

Thank You! ^_^

[Fallstar]

These are great (especially Solitaire), thanks to MS and DavMac!

[Raymond231]

Very nice to see a few new apps!

Solitare is just mandatory on a mobile device. Good little airport timekiller. It is nicely executed. Can we get Spider Solitare next please?

Stopwatch/Timer: simple, but well exicuted and useful.

Labyrinth: A really cool, fun and well made game (esp for free! Would expect to pay for something with 110 levels!)

But, mostly pleased to see that MS is paying some much needed attention to this device. Hope to keep seeing a few more releases over the next few months...

Thanks Dave!

[chrisw142]

THANKS ZUNE TEAM!! the labybrith and stopwatch apps are amazing!!!

[Zuniq]

Originally Posted by Raymond231

Labyrinth: A really cool, fun and well made game (esp for free! Would expect to pay for something with 110 levels!)

First of all I really like Labyrinth!! ...but, your comment about paying because it has 110 levels is not so right though...its a program which use patterns, so each level/pattern is actually computed and not made by hand if you know what i mean..they just made graphics and objects and then ran a code to make each level according to some conditions.

Also, the sphere doesn't move so smoothly (probably something wrong with physics), but i guess this is a detail for most of the people..(i'm used spotting these details because i'm a pinball simulation fan...)

P.S. The graphics of Labyrinth remind me of LittleWing Pinball... http://www.littlewingpinball.com/con.../ft_screen.jpg

If we could only have one of their tables for Zune HD, it could be a miracle!!!