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Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by antr »

jgrall wrote: post #38
antr wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it doesn't work with the iPad (3) either...

Yeah no iPad support yet. For this app to work though you kind of need to have the device with you at all times to not miss the reminders to leave for the airport. For that reason, we thought iPhone was the way to go.

albeit the iPad is not the most "mobile" device, it still is pretty portable, and used by many travel professionals (not the traveler per se).

still, looking forward iPad support going forward.

Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by jgrall »

mahyarm wrote: post #47

Could you enable this for all appstores? I sent a link to a family member in canada and he couldn't download it. Generalizing this into a flight tracker while your travelling app would be pretty awesome too. You can swipe between flights like kayak's flight tracker. Who did you use for the graphic design? Did you contract it out or are you working together?

We'll support other countries in the future once we've licensed the necessary international data to get good coverage in other countries. Sorry your family member wasn't able to grab it.

We've thought about other ways to build on the app... like tackling leaving for the airport to catch a flight. We might add multi-flight tracking too with swiping between flights as you suggest in the future if enough people want that.

The graphic design was done by my buddies Graham Beer (@grahambeer) and Sean Nelson (@partlysean).

Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by jgrall »

hiraki9 wrote: post #52

I just downloaded the app, and the designer made excellent design choices. There's an elegant balance of playfulness and utility, tasteful color scheme and font choices and a healthy amount of animated sizzle. Well done!

Props to @grahambeer he was responsible for much of the app design.

Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by auston »

jgrall wrote: post #15
casca wrote: post #13

This could be very useful, but it doesn't install on a 3GS because it requires a gyroscope? Seems a curious requirement given the functionality.

We didn't support 3GS because creating 2X the artwork would have been a lot of work for a relatively small % of iPhone users that will soon be upgrading to retina. Consider your comment a +1 for 3GS.

I would also like 3GS support...

Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by jgrall »

nsxwolf wrote: post #50
jgrall wrote: post #4

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Yeah totally, we were thinking of setting up a geo fence around the airport and automatically sending a text with their location or notifying the person being picked up that their ride has arrived.

This would be awesome. Does iOS let you do trigger this event if the app is in the background?

Yes it does with the newer iOS APIs for significant location change monitoring and geofencing.

Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by tomkarlo »

This is great - there have been a lot of times over the past few years I wish I had this app. One suggestion - is the travel time to the airport static or variable based on traffic? Here in SF, it can vary by a factor of 2X-3X, turning a 20 minute drive into an hour. You could get traffic data from Google or somewhere and cover that (if you don't.)

Re: Just Landed for iPhone helps you pick someone up from the airport.

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Post by tomkarlo »

antr wrote: post #51
jgrall wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah no iPad support yet. For this app to work though you kind of need to have the device with you at all times to not miss the reminders to leave for the airport. For that reason, we thought iPhone was the way to go.

albeit the iPad is not the most "mobile" device, it still is pretty portable, and used by many travel professionals (not the traveler per se). still, looking forward iPad support going forward.

Also, there are a significant number of people out there with an Android phone plus an iPad.
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