Re: The New iDATABOOK FOR iPHONES
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: HeroFish</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Everyone,
<span style="font-weight: bold">I have not purchased this app, nor have any kind of relationship with the seller.</span> However I do hae some background in programming, and trying to deliver applications. <span style="font-weight: bold">I think it would be a good application, once its delivered</span>. I encourage everyone to submit feature requests to the developer.
What I really wanted to do was give everyone a picture of what the fellow must be faced with.
Imagine you sell expensive custom rifles. But you don't build them. You rely on a gunsmith to build them. You have customers waiting on rifles, and the manufacturer of the parts you need for your gunsmith is creating delays. Your gunsmith can't build the rifles without these parts, so you go looking for another source. You finally find another source, and the specs are different. Your gunsmith now has to change the setup to deal with these new changes in parts and specifications. All of this doesn't really matter to the customer, but it is pretty much out of the control of the seller. He is totally there with the customers in being frustrated with not being able to deliver product that he has spent thousands of dollars developing, and countless hours to get to where he today. But still, can't get his customers who want to buy, a rifle.
I am not saying he's a great guy, I don't know him. But I have been stuck trying to deliver an application where I don't have very strong control over the developers, nor really much alternative other than starting fresh, and it really sucks.
I just figure I have a bit of empathy for the guy is all I am saying.
PS. I checked out the website and the tutorial on the app, and I can say that this either cost lots of money to develop or someone spent a huge chunk of time creating it or both are true. As someone who has written code, its not something I would want to tackle on my own, it's pretty complex.</div></div>
What I put in bold says it all. Not to be an ass but spare us the 'I know what it's like to be a programmer' speech because the last 'update' that was released essentially turned the program into a waste of bandwidth and space with everyone who downloaded it becoming a $30 guinea pig. That update was WELL over six months ago and there hasn't been shit fixed since the issue was discovered by everyone who updated.
Being self taught in I.T., I understand the time and money that goes into development and deployment of an application, network, etc. The very LEAST the developer should've done when this issue (bug) was discovered is provide a roll-back function so at least everyone's $30 wasn't wasted.
If he would've planned properly, what he SHOULD have done is consult with the shooting community for input and feedback before deployment. Had he provided a free 'LITE' version and asked shooters to try it out and report any bugs and addressed each of them accordingly, guys wouldn't have an issue paying $30 for a FULL version.
Instead, he got in a rush in posting the application for sale, only for a short time later to see it fail. Now, he has a bunch of pissed off shooters who feel as though they've been taken.
