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Hi Jason,
This is one we're getting increasingly often, so thank you for putting it on here, as it's an important idea to answer.
The short answer is: we'd love to do a Windows Phone app and very likely will do one in the future.
The long answer is a bit... well... predictably enough, longer. At the moment, Perfect Pint is still in its early stages, considering everything we have planned for the road ahead. As a start-up, we have to be careful in terms of starting more than we can handle with regards to manpower and resources. As we have learned very clearly so far, it's best to do a few things well first and then expand on that, rather than starting a million threads that end up in one big messy knot.
When we first started working on PP, Android and iOS were the dominating mobile phone platforms and so those are the ones we decided to do an app for. Windows Phones had a less than 4 percent market share at that point. This has now climbed to 8.4 percent and could well climb even further. Still, it is a small share compared to Android's 50+ percent and Apple's 25+.
Developing an app is a very long and pricey process, as one can imagine. At the moment, we think it's best to pool our resources into making the iOS and Android apps as good as we can make them. The iOS is nearly there, I think, and with the new features we have planned for the big update in September, it will be one excellent app, according to my completely unbiased opinion.
Android, due to the fact that it has to be compatible with more than 2,000 devices (as opposed to iOS's four), requires a bit more tweaking and we are spending a lot of time at the moment working on that. Nevertheless, we expect Android to climb towards the mythical 'excellent' status gradually over the next couple of months.
NOW, that's the 'bad' news, from your perspective.
The 'good' news is that once this process is finished and the two apps stand side by side as something we can be very proud of, we will look at what we can do next. This will include planning new directions, such as other platforms. If the Windows Phone market share continues to rise like it has so far, we would be silly not to do a Windows app! And so that is a path we will very likely take, however, I think this will be one for early-to-mid 2014 (yes... it takes that long to make an app like PP!). When that time comes, we will certainly tell everyone about it.
In the meantime, we have just developed a new mobile site for Perfect Pint. This is to make the website much more user-friendly on your mobile phone. So, if you go to perfectpint.co.uk on your phone, you should now see the new mobile layout. With this new site, you can see the pubs around you and the beers they serve, just like on the app. Of course, the app has many more features, but this basic functionality is now available for anyone with a mobile phone. So I hope at least that one bit helps.
Once again, Jason, thank you for the suggestion and I'm sorry about the long answer, however, I wanted to explain where we are, so that you don't think we hold some strange grudge against Windows Phone users - we don't and I think I speak for all of us over here when I say that we're very much looking forward to the day when we can start making an app for Windows.
@RudyHuyn (twitter)
He is a very well known windows phone developer who made himself, with no money: instagram app, snapchat app, vine app, tinder app. In all cases apps are better then official ones. He might help you build brilliant app or show that it is not that costly as it maybe was 2-3 years ago.
regards. Tom
Are you waiting for windows 10 to come out?
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Hi Jason,
This is one we're getting increasingly often, so thank you for putting it on here, as it's an important idea to answer.
The short answer is: we'd love to do a Windows Phone app and very likely will do one in the future.
The long answer is a bit... well... predictably enough, longer. At the moment, Perfect Pint is still in its early stages, considering everything we have planned for the road ahead. As a start-up, we have to be careful in terms of starting more than we can handle with regards to manpower and resources. As we have learned very clearly so far, it's best to do a few things well first and then expand on that, rather than starting a million threads that end up in one big messy knot.
When we first started working on PP, Android and iOS were the dominating mobile phone platforms and so those are the ones we decided to do an app for. Windows Phones had a less than 4 percent market share at that point. This has now climbed to 8.4 percent and could well climb even further. Still, it is a small share compared to Android's 50+ percent and Apple's 25+.
Developing an app is a very long and pricey process, as one can imagine. At the moment, we think it's best to pool our resources into making the iOS and Android apps as good as we can make them. The iOS is nearly there, I think, and with the new features we have planned for the big update in September, it will be one excellent app, according to my completely unbiased opinion.
Android, due to the fact that it has to be compatible with more than 2,000 devices (as opposed to iOS's four), requires a bit more tweaking and we are spending a lot of time at the moment working on that. Nevertheless, we expect Android to climb towards the mythical 'excellent' status gradually over the next couple of months.
NOW, that's the 'bad' news, from your perspective.
The 'good' news is that once this process is finished and the two apps stand side by side as something we can be very proud of, we will look at what we can do next. This will include planning new directions, such as other platforms. If the Windows Phone market share continues to rise like it has so far, we would be silly not to do a Windows app! And so that is a path we will very likely take, however, I think this will be one for early-to-mid 2014 (yes... it takes that long to make an app like PP!). When that time comes, we will certainly tell everyone about it.
In the meantime, we have just developed a new mobile site for Perfect Pint. This is to make the website much more user-friendly on your mobile phone. So, if you go to perfectpint.co.uk on your phone, you should now see the new mobile layout. With this new site, you can see the pubs around you and the beers they serve, just like on the app. Of course, the app has many more features, but this basic functionality is now available for anyone with a mobile phone. So I hope at least that one bit helps.
Once again, Jason, thank you for the suggestion and I'm sorry about the long answer, however, I wanted to explain where we are, so that you don't think we hold some strange grudge against Windows Phone users - we don't and I think I speak for all of us over here when I say that we're very much looking forward to the day when we can start making an app for Windows.