MP iPhone App Officially Released
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After thousands of hours of coding (mostly by MP user Sam Vanderhyden), thousands of hours of testing by about 100 volunteers, and weeks of review by Apple, and it's finally alive! |
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Badass... Awesome work all! The fact that it's free is way way way awesome! |
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Awesome... but is there a plan for a native iPad version? (Don't have an iPhone only an iPad so for cragging it's clearer to just take screenshots of MP pages to get full-size photos). |
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You haul your iPad to the crag? The fact that you can download routes without a wi-fi connection is what makes it so awesome to me! Hope we can add photos via our phones in a couple of releases...I think a lot more of the routes would have pictures if it were more frictionless. |
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Morgan Patterson wrote:Badass... Awesome work all! The fact that it's free is way way way awesome! Edit: Oh wait - u guys want $5 per year... hum... obviously a lot of work but i guess u don't have to buy a guide book maybe if ur gonna travel...The $5 allows you to install all the locations, routes etc onto your smartphone...and if you cancel your subscription you just dont get the updates but you do retain all your installed data right? |
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Mostafa wrote: The $5 allows you to install all the locations, routes etc onto your smartphone...and if you cancel your subscription you just dont get the updates but you do retain all your installed data right?No. If you cancel, the app will warn you for a while, then eventually not allow access to routes and areas that you have downloaded. Note that no personal information is lost. The app is a shitload of work, it has no ads, and supplying all the data costs us real money. If you don't find this worth $5/year, that's okay with us - please use the site for free and we're still friends... |
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Awesome, just downloaded it on the new iPhone 4S. Works like a charm so far. |
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Nick Wilder wrote: No. If you cancel, the app will warn you for a while, then eventually not allow access to routes and areas that you have downloaded.I would pay the $5 if I could retain the info... or like a $5 for the Eastern States, $5 for SW, $5 for NW, etc. And then to update the info you'd pay a yearly subscription... But otherwise yes we're still friends and a proud MP user! |
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This is really outstanding guys! Having a pitch-by-pitch breakdown of long trad routes in Red Rocks right there on my phone is fantastic. |
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Any news on the droid version? |
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Great work. Downloaded and subscribed. $5/yr for unlimited offline access to the MP database is a great deal. I wish had this during my CO trip this summer. |
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I'm with Morgan on this one. Revoking a users ability to access already downloaded data if they don't keep a current data subscription is a deal breaker for me. |
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longroper wrote:I'm with Morgan on this one. Revoking a users ability to access already downloaded data if they don't keep a current data subscription is a deal breaker for me. I understand that supplying data costs money, but does it cost anything more once a user already has the data? And if not why not just let them retain access to the already downloaded info?I think Nick covered that with... "shitload of work". Allowing clean offline access to the vast amounts of data available on MP is a far more complex task than appears. And this work will continue forever into the future. Any good software, app or website, is a constant effort... good software is never one and done. But fear not, the site is free and always will be. |
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wooT! insta-subscribed! been waiting a while for this, good job guys! only app I've ever paid for |
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The "search my areas" function seems to crash a lot and is pretty slow on my iPhone 4S. |
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Phill T wrote:wooT! insta-subscribed! been waiting a while for this, good job guys! only app I've ever paid fornow this may be worth getting an iPhone for ('s' of course) |
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Stoked! Downloaded and subscribed! Thanks for all the hard work, this app is saweet! Totally worth $5/year! |
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Downloaded! Subscribed! So far so good! |
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Ty Morrison-Heath wrote:You haul your iPad to the crag? The fact that you can download routes without a wi-fi connection is what makes it so awesome to me! Hope we can add photos via our phones in a couple of releases...I think a lot more of the routes would have pictures if it were more frictionless.Only for places that I don't have a guide for and that have short approaches, real cragging not backcountry stuff. |
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Does the app work for Ipod Touch? If so, what functionality is compromised? |
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Simon Hatfield wrote:Does the app work for Ipod Touch? If so, what functionality is compromised?Definitely the mapping (no GPS), and that might be it, but try it out and tell us! It comes with the Grand Teton area and routes installed, so you can test it without committing five bucks. |