Friday, July 23, 2010

nma iPhone App developers - umee - fall on first hurdle

Far be it for me to spank an App development company for their App, but the irony of this is just too sweet not to highlight.

I downloaded the nma (new media age) App (v1.1) onto my iPhone4 running iOS4.0.1.

The App shouts load & proud that it’s “another great app by umee – the app specialists” on the load/splash screen, then promotes the add developers again with a banner add at the bottom of the home page “umee – Crafting brilliant apps for iPhone + Android”.

Wanting to learn of these “brilliant apps” I click on the banner ad and the App attempts to launch a modal view, presumably of these other “brilliant apps” only to bomb – crash.

The App isn’t iOS4 friendly (it doesn’t multitask, which should be easily solved by compiling for iOS4) which may be the issue.

To shout so loud and fall on the first hurdle doesn’t instil any sense of brilliance in crafting - it's just ironic :)

Details of the App from nma web site:
http://www.nma.co.uk/resources/iphone-app/

The App can be downloaded via iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/new-media-age/id340427952?mt=8