I'm not a huge fan of purchasing applications for my iPhone. I like free stuff, because usually the free stuff isn't much less featured than the pay versions. But I have purchased a couple apps for my iPhone - one is a task management app, which is pretty sweet. Another is the Geocaching app, for which there is no free version (people tried, but since Groundspeak owns the data, they got no love). The Geocaching app, also worth the money, although admittedly I haven't really used it...ever, really. But it's cool.Yesterday, I purchased another high-priced ($10) app that I'm confident is worth the cash. It's MLB.com's At Bat 2009. It's got not only live score updates throughout the game, it's got live updating box score, pitch-by-pitch plays including pitch locations, and even highlight videos during the game. All these things...maybe not worth the 10 bucks. They are pretty sweet, but usually I'm either watching the game, or I can get the updates from the tigers.com website.
But the kicker, is it also includes gameday audio for every baseball game - both home and away announcers. This is awesome, because due to MLB licensing restrictions, the local AM station (or any radio station) can't broadcast the games online. Now I could listen to the actual AM station, true, but not only do I not really have a radio handy, I'd also have to tune it and hope I get reasonable signal, which is questionable (questionable because I haven't tried). Anyway I now get every game in all it's digital glory, with Jim and Dan calling the game.
Awesome. iPhone for the win, again.
1 comments:
Sounds like you are trying to make excuses as to why you paid $10 for the app. It does sound pretty sweet though. If they had something similar for NASCAR, I'd say I would probably buy it. But they don't, because NASCAR is in with Sprint, and because the iPhone is on AT&T...well, you get the idea. So I'm stuck with nascar.com, which interestingly enough does not acknowledge the fact that there are two additional series to the Sprint Cup Series — The Nationwide Series and the Camping World Truck Series. Neither have updates on the nascar.com mobile site, and it will not allow me to view the ACTUAL nascar.com site on my iPod Touch, for some reason. Stupid.
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