I was so excited to get my iPad after buying it on Black Friday, obviously cuz it's a new toy but mostly so I can get my wife (team scorekeeper) to use it to keep score at my baseball games. What I wasn't prepared for was another charge of $9.99!!!
I realize that I can feasibly use the iPhone version on the iPad but come on! This app was made for the iPad and to use the smaller weaker version just doesn't seem fair. Anyone know any ideas? Anyone with similar issue.
I love the app on my phone, but what I would normally do is type all the info in the following day from my wife's score pad, so when I got the iPad my first thought was about how great it'll be to teach her how to use the iPad to do it herself
Have one app for both iPad and iPhone
Re: Have one app for both iPad and iPhone
I am not affiliated with FTM but as a long time user, I will share some history/personal observations...
yes. This is a known issue, not new news.. Iscore for baseball is two separate purchases one for iPhone and for iPad. Not a universal app like iscore basketball. (FYI iscore football is only tablet version at this time, and iscore android baseball is only phone version at this time)
I have seen others suggest FTM is just being greedy, having two apps.. I do not believe that is the reason. As ndon derstqmd it the reason is technical and timing... FTM developed iscore baseball for iphone, before iPad existed, and when iPad was in development they built iPad version so it was available on iPad day 1. Unfortuneatly at that time, the technical tools for universal app development was not an option, So FTM choose to have iscore baseball available on iPad day 1 and two apps was the price they and us users paid for not wanting to wait for iPad to mature in marketplace and apple to provide the now available universal app tools. Furthermore it is my understanding that it is also apple's iTunes app store rules that prevents iscore becoming a universal app, not FTM.
As you said, you can run the iPhone version at 2x on iPad and it works 100% the same as it does on iphone version. Zero loss in functionality. That said, Having spent a few hundred dollars for iPad, the last ten dollars to get iscore baseball tablet optimized version is a personal value choice ..But Every user I have seen who invested the extra ten dollars for iPad version says it was been well worth the extra investment b/c the value is there. Real value.
FTM will also help , if you need it , copy all your former data (and team site subscriptions) to your new device.. Or you can do it yourself using data sharing.
FTM unlike one of its major competitors, believes in users owning their data and making it transportable. Despite the two app hic up you have identified for iOS users.
My two plus cents
yes. This is a known issue, not new news.. Iscore for baseball is two separate purchases one for iPhone and for iPad. Not a universal app like iscore basketball. (FYI iscore football is only tablet version at this time, and iscore android baseball is only phone version at this time)
I have seen others suggest FTM is just being greedy, having two apps.. I do not believe that is the reason. As ndon derstqmd it the reason is technical and timing... FTM developed iscore baseball for iphone, before iPad existed, and when iPad was in development they built iPad version so it was available on iPad day 1. Unfortuneatly at that time, the technical tools for universal app development was not an option, So FTM choose to have iscore baseball available on iPad day 1 and two apps was the price they and us users paid for not wanting to wait for iPad to mature in marketplace and apple to provide the now available universal app tools. Furthermore it is my understanding that it is also apple's iTunes app store rules that prevents iscore becoming a universal app, not FTM.
As you said, you can run the iPhone version at 2x on iPad and it works 100% the same as it does on iphone version. Zero loss in functionality. That said, Having spent a few hundred dollars for iPad, the last ten dollars to get iscore baseball tablet optimized version is a personal value choice ..But Every user I have seen who invested the extra ten dollars for iPad version says it was been well worth the extra investment b/c the value is there. Real value.
FTM will also help , if you need it , copy all your former data (and team site subscriptions) to your new device.. Or you can do it yourself using data sharing.
FTM unlike one of its major competitors, believes in users owning their data and making it transportable. Despite the two app hic up you have identified for iOS users.
My two plus cents