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iPhone Release Delay Details. . .
The emails are constant, “When is the iPhone version coming out?” Our goal was to release sometime this summer. This summer turned into this fall. I can assure you that we are very, very close – the second very only necessary because I have said ‘very close’ previously. The good news is that the version of ShopSavvy that will hit the market will be far more polished than a 1.0 release. It will be BETTER than the original Android version launched last year (and if I don’t say so, that is saying a lot). Here is a short sneak peek video I shot yesterday:
So what is the problem? It is actually pretty silly. One of our developers (i.e. our lead developer) uploaded an older version of ShopSavvy to his iTunes account last year. It came to our attention TODAY that ShopSavvy was going to be released using his personal account and NOT our corporate account. When we tried to rectify this error the iTunes store told us that the name was taken – i.e. by our developer – and that we needed to pick a new name. I reached out to Philip Schiller from Apple and asked him for help moving the name and application from our developer’s account to our corporate account and I am hopeful he will be able to help.
I think once this gets out the gate you can look forward to many happy iPhone users!
Comment by Mark — October 27, 2009 @ 5:42 pm
This one app was the reason I almost switch over to an Android phone. That says a lot about a product such as this, that a consumer would make such a drastic switch, for one feature/app. Looking forward to having this on the iPhone.
Comment by Kevin — October 27, 2009 @ 6:17 pm
Does this mean we can expect an updated version of SS for Android?
Comment by Huuuze — October 27, 2009 @ 6:58 pm
Hey Big In Japan,
Just wanted to say thanks for all your hard work putting this out – heard about this a year ago and, like Kevin, was thinking about switching over to android to try it out (this was when i had the iphone 2g).
Now with the 3gs, i’m super excited!
However, Just wanted to ask how the database will be up here in Canada? usually things aren’t as good in Canada as the US equivalents, so I just wanted to keep myself from being disappointed.
cheers
jon
Comment by jon — October 28, 2009 @ 3:20 am
Oh the waiting…
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So did you figure things out? Do you have an ETA of when it will be in the app store? It looks awesome and I can’t wait to get it for the holiday shopping season.
Comment by Rod — October 31, 2009 @ 6:35 am
i cant wait!!!! i refuse to buy redlaser seeing what it does.
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