QuickReply is depreciated, not dead, depreciated.
Everyone’s been wondering what’s going on with QuickReply for SMS. It’s buggy, old, and the matter of fact is it’s depreciated. As of today, I’m dropping full support for QuickReply but have no plans to remove it entirely. I have already talked to saurik, so my decision is final. To mediate the fact that I don’t support it anymore, I’m making it free. If you never tried it, now’s your chance. But inevitably you will encounter a bug, which is ok.
QuickReply wasn’t made for iOS4, it was actually made for 2.x, when 3.0 came out, i made the neccesary changes and released it. I was pleased, and it worked great. 1.5.3 was the longest running release I had, and I almost never received an email for support. With iOS4, it has simply lived past it’s prime and I receive too many emails now, I really can’t keep up. I have also tried to mediate some of the huge bugs but while working on it I’ve simply come to the conclusion it requires a re-write….
So, QuickReply 2, is it coming?…..I simply don’t know. There’s a lot of things I need to evaluate before I decide to jailbreak again. My iPhone 4 isn’t jailbroken right now and I couldn’t be happier. Sure I don’t get every little hook and plugin I want, but it’s working great and I don’t have to worry about a thing. At the end of the day, reliability is worth more to me now than before.
Jailbreaking is fun, but it’s not IMHO a venue to release a product. Compatibility became the biggest problem, I worked really hard to make QuickReply as passive as possible so it wouldn’t interfere with other Substrate Plugins, but inevitably problems would arise.
Future plans: I plan to focus on the App Store. I already have a few great apps on the way, that I hope you guys will enjoy. They’re no Tweetie’s but hopefully they serve their purposes well. I have to say, developing for the App Store is a dream, everything just fits together and works. Release cycles are much quicker and LLVM/clang is awesomeee.
P.S. I know a lot of people who purchased QuickReply recently are really upset that it doesn’t work and I do want to help you guys out. So if you bought QuickReply in the last 30 days, I’ll give you a refund. This is a manual process, I don’t have any automated system. Send me an email (gauravk92@gmail.com), subject “quickreply refund”, text: include your UDID, cydia account name, and paypal account. Unfortunately I can only refund you through paypal. I do have the data for when you purchased QuickReply so if you’ve been enjoying it for a while please don’t send me an email hoping to get a refund.
