Please, have some decency and wipe your drool off the keyboard. Well, we’ll let it slide, just this once.
It was time for the site to go mobile, period. I tried plugins, but most of them suck. I also tried mobify, but my patience for CSS has grown short. Ha, you chuckle. And iOS is easier to parse? Therein comes the delightful Appmakr. But enough small talk, let’s get to the two pressing questions: (1) Why Apple and (2) Why is this worth $0.99?
Yes, I have long mocked Apple for their biodome coding. No Flash? Lame. But, as in life, there are pros & cons. Is the Apple universe a well guarded natural reserve or a gated community with a chain link fence? Depends on who you ask. Indisputably, Steve Jobs runs the show. If you don’t like long-sleeved t-shirts and jeans, then don’t bother trying. But nobody can deny that the screen resolution on the IPhone is beyond bodacious.
Still, I feel your Android pain. However, despite progress by Android, a large app gap remains. Plus, and more importantly, Appmakr beta did not invite me to participate in their Android test run. I huffed and puffed, but Android labs is still not user friendly, unless of course you are a Google engineer, in which case, like, it’s totally intuitive. Newsflash – I am not a Google engineer.
Most importantly, a glance at my laughable traffic stats reveals a major trend: most of my mobile readers use IPhones.
Who am I to argue with your good taste?
Second, why IPhone users should shell out a buck to buy this app. Well, the primary purpose is to deliver thumb-tapping & easy-to-access content. In high resolution. Checkmate. You can read the most recent posts or check out the two most popular categories: the EPL or La Liga. Because of my commitment to delivering my content on a quality screen, there are no obnoxious mobile ads. I hate reading so called “free” blog or news apps, and suddenly one third of the screen is telling me to click on something. The FutFanApp has no such filth.
In addition, we’ve thrown in a few extras (granted, with drawbacks). The Pusktrac, powered by Foursquare, will allow you to follow the South Texas roaming of our beloved Dead Hungarian footballer. He spends a lot of time at UT-Pan Am, Wingstop, and HEB. How odd. The twitter feed is self-explanatory. Obviously, with both FourSquare and Twitter, the superior experience is to use their actual stand-alone apps to interact. But when you’re in the Apple natural preserve, you can at least admire the colorful plumage of the wild parrots. Right? RIGHT?!!?
If you have an IPhone, then by all means join me in this (ad free) plush paradise for $0.99. If not, then jealously stare from afar. Feel excluded. Simmer with rage. You’re not the snob with the elitism problem, we are. But as for my fellow elite, you have been invited to join this super elite club, with membership guaranteed after your purchase of a product that would fit-in snugly alongside the rest of the elite McDonald’s dollar menu, right here.
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