Sunday 25 April 2010

A Moan About Pointless iPhone Updates

Over on whitespider1066.com I've been covering iPhone apps that are relevant to the outdoors or blogging in the outdoors or taking photos. I've even covered relevant app updates.
It's this last coverage that has sparked this blog post and mini rant.
Now I love and respect the fact that iPhone app developers regularly update their apps. Whether these updates introduce new features, tweak stuff or fix bugs. It's all appreciated by a grateful public.
However when you see an update like the following:



The expectations are set for a change to the user interface. It's what the developer has said in their own words.
Yet what is this great user interface update that was so important that the developer HAD to get thus update out?
They changed their loading splash screen. Everything else has not changed.
Was this really necessary? Come on surely this could of been done at a later date with some other stuff like bug fixes or enhancements?
Developers and users often complain about how long it takes for iPhone apps to get approval from Apple.
But is it any surprise when some developers clog up the approval process with pointless updates like this?
The developers need to help themselves sometimes, and not be their own worst enemies.

-- Could be remote blogging or just too lazy to fire up laptop/Macbook/netbook. But still this has been posted from my iPhone 3G.

Sunday 4 April 2010

Happy Easter

No matter what your religious believes are, it doesn't change the fact we are in the middle of a religious holiday. So I'm going to wish you a happy Easter.
But if we remove the religious imagery one of the images that says Easter to me is that of the daffodil.
So here are a couple of photos taken on my iPhone of the 'wild' fenland daffs.






There are also cultivated ones as well.



-- Could be remote blogging or just too lazy to fire up laptop/Macbook/netbook. But still this has been posted from my iPhone 3G.

Saturday 3 April 2010

Wordpress iPhone App Falls Out Of Favour

Over on whitespider1066 I'm now covering in more detail mobiles in the outdoors.
Over recent weeks it has become clear that the iPhone wordpress app has become buggy and unusable. Soo much so that I have moved the app from my iPhone home screen and replaced it with blogpress.
I'll still keep an eye out on the updates in the hope that it will get fixed and once more become my prefered mobile blogging app.
But until then blogpress will be getting some extensive testing.


-- Could be remote blogging or just too lazy to fire up laptop/Macbook/netbook. But still this has been posted from my iPhone 3G.