As you all know, iOS 4 (aka iPhone OS 4) will be upon us in just a few days. iOS 4 has 2 exciting features we’ve been waiting for for some 2 years now (we’ve lobbied for 4 features, so a 50% hit rate is not bad).
These 2 new features are applicable to Daylite, and they are “local notifications” and “task completion”. In Daylite language that means “alarms” and “sync on quit”. We’ve been feverishly working on these for a few months now (on the iPhone side, the server side and the sync). Our objective was to hit the App Store day 1, but we never knew the actual ship date was. Like you, we found out while we where at WWDC last week.
With the upcoming Daylite Touch 1.5, you’ll be able to set alarms (reminders), synchronization will occur when you switch to another app or when you quit (the sync bezel will still appear occasionally, but not nearly as often as it does now), and it will be compatible with the “multi-tasking” feature that comes with iOS 4 (some devices are exempt).
We should be able to submit Daylite Touch 1.5 for review in 12 days or so. Along with that, we’ll release Daylite 3.11 and Daylite Server 3.11 (yes, we have a busy couple of weeks ahead of us).
On the Billings Touch front, we’ll make the app work properly with the “multi-tasking” feature and we’ll fix a few quirks directly related to iOS 4. We’re planning to submit Billings Touch 1.3 to the App Store for review by the end of next week.
On the “Retina Display” front, we’ll be working to make both apps compatible over the next few releases. You’ll see some updated art in Daylite Touch 1.5 and Billings Touch 1.3. We’ll fully comply in a subsequent release (we will not officially have access to a “retina display” device for a least a month, however, we’ll try our best to get one asap).
Until next time…
AJ
Andy says:
Great news
Any news on iPad versions?
Thanks
Stu says:
Well done on an impressive schedule.
Another one for iPad versions…
Cheers
Stu
David Goldman says:
It would be nice if you would allow users to touch a phone number and dial it. Other apps have this support why not have it in Daylite touch?
AJ says:
@David, of course you can tap a phone number and it dials. That has been working from day 1.
Michael says:
Great !
Cheers for the fantastic job.
+1 on the iPad question. This is quite important for me as I haven’t yet subscribed to the Daylite Touch licence as I don’t want ending paying for two mobile apps: if an iPad version comes out, I would not need the iPhone version.
fipa says:
I’m also waiting for an iPad release…
Stephane Ligonde says:
I can not express how pleased I am to know that you guys will be ready to roll out these vital updates so soon. While I realize this is Apple’s fault, Daylite Touch has been useless to our firm because we still had to fall back on our exchange servers for pushing reminders to users.
Also, I’m just going to assume that you guys have something special up your sleeves with respect to the iPad. You’d have to be blind not to see the potential value-add to the user base. I look forward to having Daylite on the dozens of iPads we’ve already purchased for our research on consultant staff.
Now, if only you guys could go ahead an provide some more open access to the data that’s accumulating in our Daylite database, that would go a great way towards our internal development of financial software that we’d like to see talk seamlessly with DL. Maybe then I can finally convince our partners to stop looking for alternatives to Daylite.
Terri Zeh Jacobson says:
Hey AJ
Great work as always!
Terri Zeh Jacobson
AJ says:
@Stephane. You can gain access to all the data using the developer kit on the client side. We have noted the need for more “server” friendly access.
AJ says:
iPad comments noted.
Thx.
Joe Miller says:
You guys are doing an awesome job. Keep up the good work and keep the quality updates coming!
Ian says:
I’ll +1 the iPad version request, too. I’d be willing to buy additional licenses specifically for my company’s iPads. Will this be high priority on Marketcircle’s task list once you release these new iPhone and OS X applications? It seems like “enough” people are interested.
Jeff says:
AJ-
Looking forward to the updates. I have a huge issue with syncing with ICal to the point where I have turned sync off and only use Daylite/Touch. The disadvantage is that I can no longer use search on the Iphone and find information inside events that would show up in ICAL. Any chance that we could have the ability to search for information inside touch?
Jeff
NCraig says:
Looking forward to the iOS 4 / iPhone 4 updates. Thanks for the great product.
Sweth says:
+1 on the iPad version, but one thing you could do to make life easier for both you and us would be to announce some sort of pricing/upgrade policy for iPhone->iPad migration. e.g. if people buy a license for the iPhone version (which i’m assuming will run on the iPad the way most iPhone apps do) between now and the release of an iPad version, they will be able to upgrade to the iPad version for free (or even for the difference in cost between the two if the iPad version is more expensive).
Having a version of Daylite for the iPad w/ additional features (like the ones that the iPhone version are missing, such as managing notes that aren’t linked to contacts/objectives/tasks, or full search of contacts rather than just by first word) would be great, but even having the ability to run the iPhone version on the larger iPad screen would be enough to make me pay for a new license *IF* I knew that I wasn’t going to be screwed by having to pay for still another license once the official iPad version came out.
James W Lane says:
I been waiting to buy billings till it came out for the iPad also.
Patrick Leake says:
Feature request:
Select iPhone or Skype at time of dialing number.
and / or
Set default telephony as one or other.
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Mike says:
Feature request for the pad – The ipad is quickly becoming a replacement for my laptop. Please, please, please whenever you roll out the ipad, please include DMI support so my email can integrate with the daylite app.
Michael Beneville says:
My studio, a team of 6, has optimized our daylite with subtask timers. They are extremely useful to us and form the core of our timed task tracking. They work on the computers but not on the iPhone and ipads. Any chance that you could solve that. We’re a mobile bunch and I’d like to toggle on and off without going back to my desk all the time. The iPad version can’t come fast enough. Great job. Your program and Merlin are the heart of my business.
Ryan Cash says:
@Michael
This may be of interest to you: http://www.marketcircle.com/billings/pro/