There is a difference between being cheap, and not throwing money away. Were this a nonprofit effort, scrutiny could be ignored, but since it's designed to make money, it's not immune to scrutiny. $5 is not a lot of money in general, but in terms of app purchases, it's significant. Would you spend $30 for a DX Teebird?
A larger company selling millions of copies of a $2 app and not relying on a server backend isn't a valid comparison. So yes, it's for profit because I need to support the infrastructure and make up the development costs and maybe spend $5 on a meal myself once in a while.
I can guarantee you I'm not running to the bank with millions of dollars. The other apps in this space are at a comparable, equal or even more expensive price price point. *Everyone* that buys app is cheap, I'm guilty of it myself. You walk around with a $400 phone and agonize over spending a few bucks on an app while you drink a $7 coffee
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Bought, Looks sweet at first glance.
a couple little things i noticed...
you can't add sub-zero temps... the "minus" button is there when the keypad pops up to enter temps but the button doesn't allow you to enter it. the numbers are the only buttons that work on that key pad. It would be sweet to have the weather auto entered like ESC does, i think someone mentioned this already...
In the App Settings menu, under Scoring, under Player Auto Advance, it says "During scoring entry, advance to the next next player automatically" did you mean to use next twice?
I'm gonna keep playing around with it but once you get the hang of searching around to figure out how to use it it seems like it has a lot of features that are similar to the apps out there but the inclusion of searching the database of courses and having all of the features of DGCR (or most of them) is pretty nice!
GPS for tees and pins might be cool to get more accurate (or maybe in some case inaccurate) distances. If you include a feature like this how would it affect the course data entered on the site? If you allow for manipulation of hole data on the app, would it change the data on the website or just in your app?
I'll get the negative temperature and that double "next" sorted out. I don't really trust content to come from phones to update the site so that probably won't happen, at least not in a way that would be incorporated into site information. Maybe just something for the app in the future for people that like that sort of thing but I think it's a little too unreliable (in terms of user error) to make that an "official" hole measurement.