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Note to users of our iPhone Application: Don’t update yet

October 17th, 2009Esra'a (Bahrain)

For those of you that have downloaded our iPhone Application, you might notice that there is an update that was released today. You’re encouraged to ignore it. We noticed a few bugs that were overlooked and are now being currently fixed. We’ll be releasing a new build as soon as it’s done, and the update after this one should reflect that.

The update includes improved design and functionality, and having “MideastYouth” be a source for any tweets being made from within the application, such as in this screenshot below:

Twitter

Overall the application has had some really nice reviews, but some complained of the fact that the app crashes once used excessively, or in the case of this latest build, once any feed is opened at all. Everything should be fixed and improved with the new build coming up.

Thanks to everyone who downloaded the app and many thanks for all your encouragement.

As for news about our Symbian phone application, we stopped its development due to the fact that we couldn’t figure out a way for it not to use an excess amount of data, making the app very expensive to use if not connected to a wireless connection. Many helped us test it and we all came to the conclusion that it wasn’t exactly necessary or usable. It was a failed experiment but one that needed to be explored anyways, so we don’t regret the time and effort we put into it (11 tough months, to be exact.)

However, due to popular demand, we now started developing for the BlackBerry device instead. It will be more or less a BlackBerry version of the iPhone one.

2 Responses to “Note to users of our iPhone Application: Don’t update yet”

  1. Great applications, Esra’a!

    I love the style of technology which Mideast Youth develops. A tech touch which is brilliantly recieved!

    I’ll blog soon something about the Java Mobile Mideast Youth Arabic RSS feeds! I use this application myself on my Sony Ericsson set! It’s wonderful! Truthfully wonderful!

  2. Thanks so much Ahmed, that would be great!

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