TAXIRUF is the first ever application released by straight2market, a company I’m investing into. Not only did it receive some great press coverage but since its first release customers have been asking us for a significant enhancement: Displaying not only phone numbers of cab stations but also their names.
TAXIRUF 2.2
What might seem like a minor enhancement to ask for sometimes turns out to be a lot more painful than assumed initially. As mentioned in the iTunes App Store description TAXIRUF ships with a carefully assembled database containing all German cab stations. We deliberately decided to not simply connect to one of the Google or Yahoo! web services to return cab stations found by these. Many location-based iPhone app competitors do simply that. There are two reasons to not do so:
- It does not work when you’re offline. And we want to make sure you get a cap even if there’s no data network.
- It tends to return pizza taxis and other stuff simply because the term “taxi” is part of the query.
In December 2008 we decided to add the names of all the stations in our database and ship it as a free update to all existing customers.
So here we go: If you’re in Germany – or plan to visit the country – grab a copy of TAXIRUF (link opens iTunes) and enjoy the added value we’ve just created.
Großartig, ich liebe diese Anwendung!