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Hi,

I'm the author of GoSkyWatch. Glad to hear some of you like it. Also acknowledge some people have seen crashes. Version 1.1 should help with this. It's been submitted to Apple for approval. Apple is somewhat swamped with the launch of the app store so it's taking a while to get updates through.

You are correct in that it is a trade-off between performance and features when creating iPhone apps. We chose to go for graphics performance. It's what the iPhone can do well. Writing text to the iPhone screen is a big performance drain which is why GoSkyWatch has minimal text displayed (we think text clutters up the display anyway).

Interested to get your feedback as to what you would like to see added or improved. We've now heard several requests for deep space objects so that is something we plan to get into version 1.2. Hope to get that done soon.

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Richard,

Why not offer a free version of your app so people can try before they buy? Based on App Store reviews and several forums online it seems that lots of people consider themselves burned by paying for apps that suck (or they just don't like). A demo version, timed (if possible), feature locked (planets only?), or whatever method you'd use will at least give us something to try before we buy.

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