iPhone For Cars - An App Stalls
Posted in Fix Your Car on October 17th, 2009 by scott – Be the first to commentFree iTunes App Store Gift Card with Select Epson Printers. Valid 10/4-10/31
Zipcar’s much anticipated iPhone app for cars stalls and Paul Sloan at Techcrunch decides to dish out a little. Perhaps its time to get out of the left lane, some killer car iPhone apps are starting to surface.
Hats off to Zipcar for their PR efforts though, they certainly got the word out with Fortune calling them the best new idea in business. So what’s this about Zipcar’s delay in launching their app and why such negative reviews in the app store? Seems like they did an amazing job promoting their app but fell a bit short on what they delivered. Sometimes what you can build and what you can ship puts things into a constant dev cycle and it gets complicated. Some of the other car apps getting out there include this one that turns your iPhone into a set of keys. This is quite interesting because its actually interfacing with an external system installed on your car.
