Gauging iPhone App Interest

[Hughesie]

Make it 5$ and donate some to CB or a theater fund. It also allows a nice round figure.

But Dave, Isn't Vb about to release their app?

[dvsDave]

vB isn't working on an iPhone app to my knowledge. Unfortunately I can't do the the donating thing Huzy, Apple doesn't allow it. (see the ETC iPhone app saga for proof)

[NickJones]

Apple not letting you do somting? Never! God I hate them, why must the have such cool products?

[dvsDave]

UPDATE on the apple upgrade policy: AT&T relents a little, lets iPhone 3G customers with upcoming upgrade dates buy 3G S at full subsidy

[NickJones]

To be honest Dave the more I look at this the less it seems useful. No offense, but after pulling up the current CB on my iPod (That you can do by changing the theme at the bottom to iPhone) I really see no major differences other than it takes advantage of the touch feature more. What would be really awesome would be if you could get the site to just go to the normal CB on iPhone, rather than the limiting iPhone mode. Then there would be no need for you to spend an arm and a leg on getting the App developed. The only feature the App seems to have that current iPhone CB doesnt have is the ability to look through uploaded photos like a photo album & show the avatars. The more I think about it the less point I see in doing it. How hard would it be to just take away the re-direct function when you connect on an iPhone?
Just my 5c
Nick

[Clifford]

I would get the app. I don't usually use the iPhone because viewing CB in Safari is a little annoying. App please.

[MNicolai]

CB on the iPhone as is isn't that difficult to navigate, but I didn't try posting replies or checking the glossary while I was demoing the one in the AT&T store (my 3G S is still shipping to the store yet).

A question I do have though, is if you change the website at all, and I know you always have ideas you're crunching around in your head, I would be curious how much that would affect the app and if a domino effect of problems would be created. Maybe this would work well after the next huge update to the website, unless the website looks really stable right now and doesn't need new features.

Another issue is how much people are willing to pay. If there's some, but not much added utility in having an app versus going to the WWW address, I'd be willing to pay maybe a couple dollars, because that's pocket-change to me and CB is a website I check often, but if only minor value is in added to the app, and we don't have a large enough footprint of people who would purchase it, then the pricing may not be worthwhile for us in the long -run.

For the functionality of having a dedicated app, and let's go extra special and say it plays nicely with our collaborative articles and glossary, maybe even makes it 10x easier to find those articles and modify them, then how much of a price tag are we looking on a per-user basis? That, or is this a cookie-cutter job for the dev and will be easy, quick, and not-as-expensive?

[NickJones]

Im on iPhone now. It currently sucks.
Nick

[dvsDave]

Here's the first version of the app: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/M...307880732&mt=8 You'll have to click to the educational category (I think) to find CB. I don't have an iPhone/iTouch so I can't test it. Please let me know what you think, and if you think it's worth it for CB to have it's own version of this app.

[MNicolai]

Is Tapatalk by Quoord Systems the correct app?