With all due respect, Alastair, I think your first line negates the rest of your argument: you have not seen the app! How can you say whether or not it’s worth the price, half the price, or double the price of Morcombe? I do agree though that a free version with only a handful of species would allow people to play around with the app to see what it can do. By the way, I have no proprietary interest in the app. A couple of my photos are used in the locations section, and I was invited to be beta tester, but I assume that I’ll need to buy a copy if I want to access the free upgrade path and enjoy future developments. Personally, I’d be happy to fork out the price just for the sound recordings. I love the Dave Stewart recordings on the Morcombe app – but to paraphrase Rudyard Kipling, you can never have too many bird calls! Russell Woodford On 22 November 2013 07:41, Alastair Smith <birdlineact@gmail.com> wrote: > While I have not seen the app and so I cannot comment on its utility, the > question I would ask whether it twice as good as Morcombe (i.e. $70 v $36)? > As someone who currently uses Morcombe as a field guide and Birdlog ANZ for > recording my sightings in the field, I would also question whether we need > all the additional info that the P&K app provides, in one app. For example, > while hotspots is nice to have, more up-to-date information on birding > hotspots is freely available on Eremaea and eBird. > > For the very high price the developers are asking, I suggest they need to > provide a free LITE version so people can have a look what is on offer as > is the case with the Sibley app in the US. > > Regards > Alastair > > > > > BIRDLINE ACT > > Please report all interesting sightings of birds in the ACT to > www.eremaea.com/birdlinerecentsightings.aspx?birdline=11 > > > BirdlineACT@gmail.com > > On 22 Nov 2013, at 12:53 am, Russell Woodford <rdwoodford@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Fantastic review, David. I’ve also had fun playing with a beta version. > Like you’ve said in the review, it maintains the look and feel of a field > guide, but is so, so much more. I love the “key guide” identification, the > ability to build multiple lists, and add to any of them, not just the > latest one, and also to export lists. There is also an import list feature, > but I haven’t been able to test that yet because I don’t have any program > to convert CSV into a SQL file (and I don’t want to muck around in shell > scripts). > > I think the calls are a little louder in this app than in Morcombe (to > answer a question on your blog) but there are a few species not included. > Still with both apps, we have a wonderful selection of calls for ID etc. > Getting a checklist based on your location is another fantastic > development: we should expect this in every serious birding app from now > on. > > Pleased to see that it’s on the App Store now. Very keen to hear what other > people think about this wonderful app. > > Russell Woodford > > > On 21 November 2013 20:02, David Stowe Photography < > photos@davidstowe.com.au > > wrote: > > > If anyone is interested i have just posted a longer review including a few > screenshots of the new Pizzey & Knight Digital Edition on Feathers and > Photos. > I see that it is now available on iTunes in the App store too! > > > > http://www.feathersandphotos.com.au/forum/showthread.php?27084-Pizzey-amp-Knight-Birds-of-Australia-Digital-Edition > > Cheers > David Stowe > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > =============================== > > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > =============================== > > =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================
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