- Posts tagged mobiyze
- Explore mobiyze on posterous
My first iPhone app
One such email that I merely click-glanced at was from Apple. Yes, Apple - the computer and phone manufacturer. Now, this wasn't much of a big deal at first because I had thought it was one of their usual promotional emails. For those of you that don't know (and that's all of you since this was kept hush-hush for a while) I had submitted my first iPhone application for review in the Apple iTunes App Store on 23 January 2009. Since then, Apple has been mailing me alerting me to bugs and fixes, etc, for my app.
Those emails were in a pretty boring serif font. I was expecting my approval letter from Apple to be in the same style. Oh no. No no no. Being Apple, they sent me a very nicely styled email letting me know that my first app was finally in the magnificent App Store.
And what a moment it was.
A flood of emotion touched me as I had just realised the feat I had accomplished (or rather, we had accomplished - I couldn't have done it without our the amazing designs our brilliant designers Basil Percimoney and Nirissa Govender had churned out over and over again). An immedia app was finally in the App Store, and I was a published iPhone App Store developer. Wow. I felt like an author that had just gotten his book published. So amazing and liberating. The app, by the way, is called YFM MobiYze. It's for GP's Hottest Frequency, YFM 99.2. YFM is a hot, trendsetting radio station based in Rosebank, Joburg. From the description in the app store:
The first South African Radio Station to provide iPhone and iPod Touch technology to enhance its users' radio experience on the fly. Catch up on the latest weather, station events, blog postings and even the current song that's being played live on air... or you could just listen to it LIVE straight from your iPhone or iPod Touch! So go ahead and be one of the firsts to experience GP's Hottest Frequency courtesy of YFM 99.2
After this whole approval process, I finally understand and get why there is a need for it. And am very thankful for it. The whole process ensures that the quality and stability of an app is something worthy of an iPhone user using it. So, if you have an iPhone, you can find YFM MobiYze by downloading it in iTunes on your computer, or using the App Store on your iPhone or iPod Touch (check the Entertainment category or search for "YFM"). Try it out, and let me know your feedback so I can push out an awesome 1.1 release soon!
Finally, I'd like to thank Basil Percimoney and Nirissa Govender for their earth-shattering designs and time, Anice Hassim (Head Strategist of immedia), Shashi Pillay (Digital Agency Manager) and Kanthan Pillay (CEO of YFM 99.2) for their groundbreaking ideas and innovation, and to everyone who tested the app while in beta.
