Usually I\u2019m throwing stories into the whiner category about someone whining about something. Today, I\u2019m whining. This is an appeal to iPhone app developers. When you create a paid version of a program you have previously offered for free, feel free to grab my settings from the previous version I have already installed. <\/p>\n
iPhone app developers have this tendency to create a quality, useful application and give it to us for free. In the words of Gene Simmons, that\u2019s cool! But then they get all greedy, and think they need to be reimbursed for this app that has grown so widely popular, and release an \u201cad-supported\u201d upgrade. No problems yet, except for the ads I\u2019m now putting up with. Still, I can understand. It\u2019s a funny thing humans do \u2013 expect to get paid for their labors. I hold no grudge. Soon after, people like me complain about the ads and wish there were a paid version. I\u2019d much rather pay for an app than watch some intrusive (regardless of how small, intrusive is intrusive) ads. Such was the case with Twitterfon, The Weather Channel, and AOL IM; all applications that I use.<\/p>\n
When the once-free app is paid for, the problem manifests itself. Now the user has to enter all the settings for the second time. The latest offender was The Weather Channel Max. I\u2019ve been using The weather channel for all my weather needs, and I have many. Being an avid biker (of the Harley kind, not Schwinn) with my HOG Chapter, I need to know what the weather is going to be tomorrow – not only here, but where I plan on riding to and most spaces in between, with hourly trends. <\/p>\n
Needless to say, I have accumulated quite a few locations within The Weather Channel. A simple tap shows me the next location I need to know about. Today I upgraded to The Weather Channel Max, and now I have to through the mundane process of inputting all the locations I frequently travel to. This is a smartphone, right? What\u2019s so hard about checking the current settings to see if there just might be a previously free version\u2019s setting file already in place, and *gasp* USE IT!<\/p>\n
Of course there might be some other problems involved as I\u2019m no app developer. Maybe iPhone has everything so sandboxed in that one app can\u2019t cross over into another apps setting file, even if said app is a logical upgrade to the other. I don\u2019tknow. It would be nice though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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