Summer officially ended Friday at 2:09 AM Pacific Daylight Time. My final app of the summer is a resubmission of Globe. The display looks exactly the same, but the touch UI is completely redone. The old, non-intuitive system had you dragging to spin the globe and tilting the iPhone to tilt the globe. The new version lets you “touch” the globe with your finger and move at around or tilt it up and down. To spin the globe, you just flick your finger. Response from people who’ve tried it hands-on has been universally positive. I hope you’ll like it. Moreover, I hope Apple’s reviewers do, so you get a chance to see it.
This ends the summer app-a-week experiment. I’ll still be writing new apps, but I won’t be releasing them on any fixed schedule. Also, for anyone interested in the iPhone development process, I’ll be writing up my “lessons learned” and posting them on this blog. Stay tuned!