congeeking
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Hi Mike,
Great work on Pleco -- I have a few concerns about the UI being not as intuitive & usable as it could be (I feel like there are some lingering vestiges of Pleco's beginnings in Palm/WM), but I'm sure this is being addressed in the upcoming major update. It also couldn't hurt if the app was a bit "prettier."
Niggling concerns aside, what I'm really wondering about is when will the Oxford Dictionary finally be made available to iOS users? Apologies if this was already addressed in another thread, but a quick search didn't seem to turn up much info, and I ain't gonna spend hours of my time diggin.'
I was THIS close to scanning the whole damned paper dictionary and loading it up as a *.pdf on my iPad or iPhone -- that's how much I love this dictionary. So you can imagine how overjoyed I was to hear that it's on its way.
Hopefully, your work on the Android version isn't taking away too much from your iOS development -- compared to Android's userbase, iOS users are generally more loyal and willing to actually pay good money for things. I don't want to generalize and say Android users tend to be cheapskates, but it's kinda true. Case in point: My brother just picked up a Galaxy Nexus (his first modern smartphone), and he refuses to pay more than a dollar for any chinese dictionary on his phone. He'd think I was insane if he heard how much I've already spent on Pleco add-ons. Yet he's an even more avid learner of Chinese than I am. So I really hope you're not abandoning your loyal iOS users to chase after a legion of Android users who wouldn't even pay a dime for quality software.
I apologize in advance to the Android users on this forum who don't fit into my broad generalizations.
Great work on Pleco -- I have a few concerns about the UI being not as intuitive & usable as it could be (I feel like there are some lingering vestiges of Pleco's beginnings in Palm/WM), but I'm sure this is being addressed in the upcoming major update. It also couldn't hurt if the app was a bit "prettier."
Niggling concerns aside, what I'm really wondering about is when will the Oxford Dictionary finally be made available to iOS users? Apologies if this was already addressed in another thread, but a quick search didn't seem to turn up much info, and I ain't gonna spend hours of my time diggin.'
I was THIS close to scanning the whole damned paper dictionary and loading it up as a *.pdf on my iPad or iPhone -- that's how much I love this dictionary. So you can imagine how overjoyed I was to hear that it's on its way.
Hopefully, your work on the Android version isn't taking away too much from your iOS development -- compared to Android's userbase, iOS users are generally more loyal and willing to actually pay good money for things. I don't want to generalize and say Android users tend to be cheapskates, but it's kinda true. Case in point: My brother just picked up a Galaxy Nexus (his first modern smartphone), and he refuses to pay more than a dollar for any chinese dictionary on his phone. He'd think I was insane if he heard how much I've already spent on Pleco add-ons. Yet he's an even more avid learner of Chinese than I am. So I really hope you're not abandoning your loyal iOS users to chase after a legion of Android users who wouldn't even pay a dime for quality software.
I apologize in advance to the Android users on this forum who don't fit into my broad generalizations.