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Re:Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store by voxmatt on Thursday January 05, 2012 @02:48PM (#3430163)
(a) This is great. I've been using Maps+, which is a really impressive little app, but it's complexity often makes it cumbersome. Yours is very barebones, but in playing around with it, that's an asset.

(b) With (a) in mind, there really needs to be a way to plot to/from somewhere other than (what the iPhone thinks is) your current location.

(c) It would be great to be able to see bike lanes, but I understand how much extra effort that would require; so don't sweat it, but if this does rise to the level of a business...

(d) Get rid of the icon-sheen in the App store. It's not enabled on the actual phone icon, and it looks so much better that way. It looks cheap with the sheen in the App-store: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4087500/does-itunes-store...

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Re:Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store by jwhelan on Thursday January 05, 2012 @03:02PM (#3430230)
a) Glad you like it. Simplicity was a goal. b) Yes, totally agreed & in the works. c) This will be in the next release. d) We actually have a ticket in with Apple to get this fixed. There's nothing we can do on our end. Terrible.

Thanks for the honest feedback!

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Re:Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store by TheFuture on Thursday January 05, 2012 @08:37PM (#3431518)
Probably made the same mistake I did with iOS 5 and the icon. You have to define in the root level Custom iOS target properties: Icon already includes gloss effects BOOLEAN YES

You've probably only set it under Icon files -> primary icon

You can tell if you did it right if it shows up without the shine in itunes connect when you upload.

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Re:Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store by inkaudio on Thursday January 05, 2012 @03:37PM (#3430391)
Thanks for the link to distimo.com analytic, I'm looking into it. My marketing suggestion: contact blogs that a cyclist would read, blogs by/for cyclist or even a blog by a boutique bike shop. Perhaps some will write about your app.
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Re:Our first app: One month on the iOS App Store by jaxn on Thursday January 05, 2012 @06:01PM (#3431011)
http://dcrainmaker.com comes to mind
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