Take Me Home Now Free
Take Me Home is an ancient, buggy iPhone app that was my “Hello, World!” in the App Store. Its sale rate has plummeted to only a couple of buyers a week and, with the prevalence of real, honest-to-God GPS apps in the store these days, its usefulness is questionable. So from here on out, it’s free. I can’t promise to continue supporting it—especially for new devices and APIs—so the best I can do may be to remove it from the store in the event that some update breaks it.
Enjoy!
New iPhone Project: uWarranty
So, I created a new iPhone application called uWarranty. It used an unpublished Apple API for warranty status (from selfsolve.apple.com), and so I got this after submitting it:
Thank you for submitting your application to the App Store. Unfortunately, your application, uWarranty, cannot be added to the App Store because it violates section 3.3.7 of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement:
“Applications may not perform any functions or link to any content or use any robot, spider, site search or other retrieval application or device to scrape, retrieve or index services provided by Apple or its licensors, or to collect, disseminate or use information about users for any unauthorized purpose.”
OK, I get it. That’s fine and is Apple’s prerogative. But now I have this program and all the development time that went into it. So what do I do? I guess the answer is to open-source it, just like AppSales Mobile. Watch this space for more details as I clean up the code and throw it up on a public repository somewhere.
Take Me Home 1.1.1 Released
Take Me Home version number 1.1.1 is now available via iTunes. This release has the following features:
-Tweaked UI
-Progress bar now updates more accurately
-Current location accuracy now displayed to user
Take Me Home version 1.1.1 is a free update to all Take Me Home owners.
Take Me Home 1.1.1 Sent to App Store
I’ve just sent in version 1.1.1 of Take Me Home. It’s a minor fix with the following updates:
-Tweaked UI
-Progress bar now updates more accurately
-Current location accuracy now displayed to user
You can see a screenshot at the Take Me Home page and, as always, you can download the application via iTunes.
Take Me Home 1.0.1 Released
Well, due to an App Store snafu, Take Me Home’s version number is wrong—1.0.1 instead of 1.1—but the new version is now available via iTunes. This release fixes problems people with the original iPhone and iPod Touch were having; there is now a progress bar that fills up as your iPhone has a better lock on your current location.
Take Me Home 1.1 Submitted to App Store
I submitted version 1.1 of Take Me Home to the App Store today. Hopefully, it will be available soon. Take Me Home 1.1 adds the following features:
-Updated UI
-Better feedback for current status when the application is getting location updates
-Ability to customize map type
This update may appear as version 1.0.1 in iTunes, but that will be fixed when I update the version number with the next upload.
Take Me Home is available via iTunes for $0.99.
Take Me Home 1.0.1 Sent to App Store
I’ve submitted Take Me Home 1.0.1 to Apple. It’s a small UI update, so I’m hoping that it will be available within the next few days.
Take Me Home: Roadmap Announced
I’ve created a roadmap for Take Me Home that outlines my plans for new features. Take Me Home is currently at 1.0.0, and I hope to release version 1.3 by the end of January. I’m going to do one feature at a time to get new features out as soon as possible, rather than have big releases with lots of time between them.
Announcing “Take Me Home”
My first iPhone application is for sale! It’s called Take Me Home, and its sole utility is to create a map from your current location — automatically determined via GPS — to your saved home address, saving you clicks and providing convenience.
You can buy it on iTunes or check out my page for it. Take Me Home is 99 cents on the App Store.