Dulce-Joy
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Since the WP app is simply moving to the latest API, the same API that Android and iPhone are already using, I'm pretty sure that puts everyone in the same boat. Well, except the new WP app will be free. So WP users are actually in a better boat. I know the trial for iPhone was free, so basically this Lite version would be the same as that. That's not a better boat. We paid for our app, just as the other phone platforms did. Just because they are moving to the same API as everyone else, does that mean that Windows users are supposed to be penalized?
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Here's the email for Basic (non-premium) members: Dear Geocaching for Windows Phone 7 Application User, In the coming weeks, we will be releasing a new Windows Phone 7 application called Geocaching Live. This free application will replace our current Windows Phone 7 Application. It takes advantage of Microsoft’s new operating system, Mango. It will include limited features for Groundspeak Basic Members as well as some new features for Groundspeak Premium Members. Please note that on or after March 31, 2013, our current Windows Phone 7 Geocaching Application will cease functioning. This means that the current application will continue to work for a period of at least one year from today. If you choose to sign up for a Premium membership, in addition to other great features, our new application will give you: • Access to an upgraded experience with other applications using the Geocaching Live API. • Access to all cache types • Detailed descriptions on all cache pages • Ability to pin a live tile to the Start Screen that shows the nearest geocache at any given time (this updates every 20 minutes) We’d like to give you the opportunity try out these new features by providing you with a 1 month free trial subscription. Please use this code at http://www.geocaching.com/freetrial/ WP7-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Becoming a Premium Member of Geocaching.com is the best way to take full advantage of the new Geocaching Live application and any other application connecting to the Geocaching .com website through the Geocaching Live API. For a list of other applications, please visit: www.geocaching.com/live If after the trial, you decide Premium membership is not for you, you’ll still be able to take advantage of these features in the new Geocaching Live application: • 3 complete traditional geocache downloads per day (with detailed descriptions) • After the first 3 downloads, “light” geocache data that includes coordinates, cache name, difficulty/terrain information • Unrestricted logging of caches and Trackables • A hardware compass • The ability to pin saved “Advanced Search” results to the start screen • Open Street Map Support We encourage you to look for the Geocaching Live application in the Marketplace in coming weeks. Happy Geocaching! The Groundspeak Team
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Instead of iPhone users and Android users poo-pooing the Windows Phone, they ought to be thinking that this quite possibly can and will happen to them in the future. The Windows Phone users are the smallest group of the three, which would also make us the test group to see if we will just accept it.
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I agree with part of what you said, but I believe that we should have the full update to the app, just without the premium benefits if we are not premium of course. If all other app users get to continue to have a fully functioning app, what is the point of having an app anyway? Having an app is not supposed to be a "benefit" of being a premium member. There are a lot of premium members that don't have smart phones. Why wouldn't we have an app that continues to get updates? All Windows Phone users should be able to pay the $10 and to have a fully functioning app now and in the future without having to become premium members. I think the problem that they were having is that they weren't continuing to make money off the product. It was a one time fee.
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I think it's quite the opposite, I consider myself very tech savvy, I built my own computer and most of my time on the Internet is being spent reading hardware sites. Personally i think that the people buying iPhones are the ones who are being "suckered into a far inferior, less functional product". I've owned an iPhone for 3 years and it's the worst phone I've ever had. I could do more things with my 5 year old phone than I could with my iPhone. However, I hope this thread does not turn in to a flame war between different phone brands. I agree with helmius. It has nothing to do with technology, for me Windows is much more comfortable than the iPhone I had. As helmius said, "(P)eople buying iPhones are the ones who are being "suckered into a far inferior, less functional product". <--to which I would also add that the iPhone is a brand name as well.
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You cannot download a new, better program for free. It's a 'lite' program, it's worse than what we already have. And 10 bucks is 10 bucks. This isn't 'benefits of Premium membership', we aren't getting Premium caches or PQs or all the other benefits of Premium benefits as the app is now. The app has nothing to do with benefits it has to do with the app itself.
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Something else I thought of... Something I already paid $10 for is now going to cost me $30 dollars yearly. For an app, $30 a year. Well no, you will be paying $30 per year for the provision of information that everyone else pays $30 per year for. The new app is free. If there was some quirk that gave Win7 app users a free ride that is now to be stopped (in a years time) then enjoy the free ride while it lasts. No. I'd be paying $30 dollars to get the information that I ALREADY get on my home computer. The new app is free and I've already paid for an app. Everybody else does NOT already pay $30 dollars for the information I already get. What free ride? I've already paid for the app.
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The OP is not talking about the geocaching app for iphone or Android. This is "Geocaching Live" for Windows phones. IIRC, it shows where other cachers are in real time in addition to the features you might expect a GC app to have. All those out there who are worried about their activities being tracked by souvenirs are gonna have a field day... And that is what I am talking about too... Windows phone.
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I paid $10 for a service (an app) that they are going to take away? Do I get my money back? And then the new app isn't going to give me all the cache information? Is this yet another step back?? I've already paid for the service and then I'm only going to be allowed 3 caches (traditional) a day?? What's the point of having the app in the first place? Geocaching was one of my main deciding factors for getting a smart phone in the first place. I like the app the way it is, with the exception of some malfunctions that need to be fixed within the app itself. I don't need the compass as most the time the GPS on the app has me anywhere from 50 feet away to a mile away. Is this all a misunderstanding? Basically we're being told that if you want to geocache you have to be a premium member.
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Geocaching.com site update Feb 14th, 2012
Dulce-Joy replied to OpinioNate's topic in Geocaching HQ communications
This new map is SO slow. -
Geocaching.com site update Feb 14th, 2012
Dulce-Joy replied to OpinioNate's topic in Geocaching HQ communications
No, we will not be reversing that change - more people see the cache type as more important that the premium status and prefer that the behavior remains as it is currently. Okay, but there are more premium caches than there is diversity of caches (in other words, most are traditional caches). This is only for when they are zoomed out. -
Geocaching.com site update Feb 14th, 2012
Dulce-Joy replied to OpinioNate's topic in Geocaching HQ communications
You can zoom in one level and look for circles or squares. Thanks, but no thanks. Can we please get the yellow dot back? Thank you. -
Geocaching.com site update Feb 14th, 2012
Dulce-Joy replied to OpinioNate's topic in Geocaching HQ communications
I don't know if this has already been requested, but can we please get the yellow dot icon that indicate a premium member cache back on the map. If I'm looking at the map from a distance away, and I see a cache, I click on it thinking that it is a cache that I can get until the balloon pops up and I realize that it is a premium cache. Makes it difficult to eyeball the map and plan an excursion based on cache density. Thank you. --Dulce-Joy -
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Dulce-Joy replied to ColleIsarco's topic in Website
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I'm looking for the members on the forum pages to be able to see members' posts. I'm not looking for members for GC.com.
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Looks like the Feb 14th update might have taken care of the smilies disappearing. If so, Thank you!
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How do we look for members then? Or is there a different way?
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Geocaching.com site update Feb 14th, 2012
Dulce-Joy replied to OpinioNate's topic in Geocaching HQ communications
On the new maps, when you collapse the toolbar to the left, you begin to see the titles of the caches pop up in the left-hand upper corner of the map where they begin to stack up as you move the cursor over the map. -
Geocaching.com site update Feb 14th, 2012
Dulce-Joy replied to OpinioNate's topic in Geocaching HQ communications
The new maps are painfully slow and incomplete!