i believe he is talking about bandwidth costs. and a couple ads are really not that bad, i think you're in the minority when you would rather pay than view ads
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[Merged] Interest in an iPhone or iPad App for MacRumors.com
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i believe he is talking about bandwidth costs. and a couple ads are really not that bad, i think you're in the minority when you would rather pay than view ads
i believe he is talking about bandwidth costs. and a couple ads are really not that bad, i think you're in the minority when you would rather pay than view ads
Oh yeah I'm always in a minority
I accept fewer people are willing to pay for an ad-free version. I'd accept unobtrusive ads but please don't make me wait 30 seconds to view ads every time I start it up for a quick read, or insert big flashing ads at the top and bottom while I'm trying to read content. The developer seems aware of the issue though. About bandwidth costs, can you explain more? I thought this app would just reach out to the MR mobile pages then do its own formatting / saving. I'm not sure why the developer would need to run his own server for this.
If there is a need for a server-side process, maybe the MR gods can run it on MR's expanding array of servers - it could even have an ad-free version accessible only by subscribers
Just like to say a big thanks to all you guys for getting this ball rolling!
But particularly @ Saladinos for actually having the skill and the motivation
Muchly appreciated! Can't wait!
But particularly @ Saladinos for actually having the skill and the motivation
Muchly appreciated! Can't wait!
it's been a while since the last post. what's the status of the project? any chance of getting it before next week?
This has been "in the works" for almost 1.5 years now, and you're asking if it'll be out before the next week?
Gentlemen, we have our very own Duke Nukem Forever of Macrumors. No longer will we need to make tedious jokes about Powerbook G5 releases. No Sir! Instead, we can joke about the perpetually soon-to-be-released MR iPhone App.
If you don't release it soon, someone else's gonna eat your lunch. And move your cheese. And diddle your mum with your veggies. While slapping you with a trout.
MR is one of the largest and most valuable blogs on the internet and the biggest Apple news website. It's only a matter of time.
http://247wallst.com/2008/03/26/the-twenty-five/
If you don't release it soon, someone else's gonna eat your lunch. And move your cheese. And diddle your mum with your veggies. While slapping you with a trout.
MR is one of the largest and most valuable blogs on the internet and the biggest Apple news website. It's only a matter of time.
http://247wallst.com/2008/03/26/the-twenty-five/
i do find it amazing their isnt a macrumors app- yet.
You claim your mobile version is fine, but I mean, it's pretty bad on an iPhone.
I care about the forums more about the rumors themselves. The rumors are 80% commoditized (meaning you can go to any site or app and get them) but the forums you cant.
You claim your mobile version is fine, but I mean, it's pretty bad on an iPhone.
I care about the forums more about the rumors themselves. The rumors are 80% commoditized (meaning you can go to any site or app and get them) but the forums you cant.
Arn and WildCowboy have implemented an update in the mobile forums.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=9237921
They're looking rather better on the iphone now. The developer of this perpetually delayed app is risking seeing his market vanish from under him.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=9237921
They're looking rather better on the iphone now. The developer of this perpetually delayed app is risking seeing his market vanish from under him.
about time the WiForums were updated! its really nice and easy to use now, thumbs up from me.
an iPhone/iPad app - especially the iPad - would be most wanted. sure you could just use standard MR with the iPad, but it would be a nice experience on it and could look much slicker
an iPhone/iPad app - especially the iPad - would be most wanted. sure you could just use standard MR with the iPad, but it would be a nice experience on it and could look much slicker
You're wrong. It's not being released until it's ready (or if arn wants it released before that, fine).
I don't know how big you think MacRumors is, and I certainly have no idea how big it actually is, but I do know that I'm not being paid massive sums of money to make this app and that I'm only one person doing this in parallel with other things.
You could try and be a bit more understanding. MacRumors has been without an iPhone app for a long time, but I haven't been working on one for all of that time. This app has been in development for months, not years. It's making good progress.
Hopefully it'll be worth it.
Karl
I don't know how big you think MacRumors is, and I certainly have no idea how big it actually is, but I do know that I'm not being paid massive sums of money to make this app and that I'm only one person doing this in parallel with other things.
You could try and be a bit more understanding. MacRumors has been without an iPhone app for a long time, but I haven't been working on one for all of that time. This app has been in development for months, not years. It's making good progress.
Hopefully it'll be worth it.
Karl
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Actually, by some measures the app is finished now.
The news part is really stable and has some great features such as:
- Background downloading of images. If an article has lots of images, you won't need for them all to download before starting to read. Great if you're on a slow connection (in fact, you can even turn images off altogether).
- Offine mode including images. All articles you read are automatically saved on the device, including images, and can be read offline. Old articles are automatically erased. Useful for iPod touch owners.
- Automatic downloading of the latest X articles. Also useful for iPod touch owners.
- Support of embedded YouTube videos (this one's half done. My iPhone got stolen and I can't test this in the simulator)
Which isn't bad for a 1.0 release. I've still got to implement favourite articles, add article sharing buttons (really? do people actually use those? say no and I'll gladly leave them out!), and hook up some links to the WAP version of the site's forums (which looks the best on the iPhone). Those features can wait for a 1.x release.
I've also got to get some word from the administration about ads, and fix a probable bug when articles have updated (which is sort of hard to orchestrate, so I need some help testing it -- nothing catastrophic happens, but it'd be nice to fix it).
My iPhone dev account's about to expire, so the app would need to be published by the site's account (which is fair enough I think, no reason for me to submit the official macrumors app from my person account).
The news part is really stable and has some great features such as:
- Background downloading of images. If an article has lots of images, you won't need for them all to download before starting to read. Great if you're on a slow connection (in fact, you can even turn images off altogether).
- Offine mode including images. All articles you read are automatically saved on the device, including images, and can be read offline. Old articles are automatically erased. Useful for iPod touch owners.
- Automatic downloading of the latest X articles. Also useful for iPod touch owners.
- Support of embedded YouTube videos (this one's half done. My iPhone got stolen and I can't test this in the simulator)
Which isn't bad for a 1.0 release. I've still got to implement favourite articles, add article sharing buttons (really? do people actually use those? say no and I'll gladly leave them out!), and hook up some links to the WAP version of the site's forums (which looks the best on the iPhone). Those features can wait for a 1.x release.
I've also got to get some word from the administration about ads, and fix a probable bug when articles have updated (which is sort of hard to orchestrate, so I need some help testing it -- nothing catastrophic happens, but it'd be nice to fix it).
My iPhone dev account's about to expire, so the app would need to be published by the site's account (which is fair enough I think, no reason for me to submit the official macrumors app from my person account).
Just popped in to suggest this same thing. Would be a huge upgrade over viewing the forums using safari.
wow!!!! thats really sexy!!! im loving it!
any news on how much it will cost?
now you have to work on the iPad version haha
any news on how much it will cost?
now you have to work on the iPad version
haha
Looking really nice. i think that those features and fixes can wait, and the app can get released. I just think that Forums need to be added.
What about external links? Load in Safari or the app?
What about external links? Load in Safari or the app?
Perhaps we could get Arn to confirm the supposed "App" is more than a couple lines of code, that this guy has done to show us screenshots?
Wirelessly posted (nokia e63: Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaE63-1/100.21.110; Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 ) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413)
the one that was posted before is more then enough evidence in my mind Tbh
Saladinos said:
the one that was posted before is more then enough evidence in my mind Tbh