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App store updates

Posted on December 14, 2011 by rspears

Thanks for the update Shoeboxed!

Probably one of my biggest pet peeves on the app store is a severe lack of app update description. As a developer, I tend to look at each app update to see how other devs (or marketing group) are telling their users “what’s new!” I used to just to the ol’ “Update All”, but the more I use an app the more I want to know if new features are getting stuffed into the app. I’m sure we want to get the most of our free or 99c apps.

I try and provide my users with the most detail on an update as I can. Minor Enhancement? Here is a list of most or all of the bugs that I’ve found based on feedback and testing! Major revision? Here’s a solid laundry list of what you can expect out of the enhancements! Of course, the list that I give to our business lead doesn’t always match word for word what ends up in the app store. But I try.

Camera+ update FTW!

Camera+ on the other had does a great job with both their app and their app updates. They even throw in whimsical little icons!

WordPress for iOS

Posted on November 30, 2011 by rspears
iTunes placeholder for wordpress iOS app

Wordpress for iOS

In three words: ‘Not that great’. I was kind of hoping for a mechanism to upload images from my iPhone into my media library without creating a full blown post with each photo. Most of the review of gadgets that I get my grubby hands on, I’m going to be taking pictures with my iPhone camera. I mean, I have the phone on me 24/7 anyway, so naturally I’m going to use it’s camera. I see there are some 3rd party tools that will do the trick for me, but I was hoping that this app would take care of that for me.
Still on the topic of image, I’m not sure if anyone that has used the app has attempted to upload and use an image in a post? For some reason the app doesn’t really like to play nice embedding the html. Once you’ve decided to use the image in the post and publish, I find I just get stripped up HTML.

At least you can view your blog stats. I’ll just be happy with that.

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