Well, it has taken 8 years but we actually have an approved App to release to the world. We aren't going to release it just yet as we want to do more testing ourselves and make sure that it is cosmetically what it should be and as tidy as possible.
It is 11 months since the ugliness of my coworker throwing his toys out of the pram and it would be poetic if I were to release it on the very day but symbolic gesture aside, it would only satisfy my inner ego and he'd not know or I imagine care about that.
So here we are and at last something to throw out there and for the world to make a judgement on as to whether to download it in the first place and buy it in the second. I don't feel anything at all about it. No huge joy or cheering or anything else. I have so many false starts with this including all the marketing which looks particularly stupid as it was leading up to last Christmas and the Christmas before that and the one before that. So I'm neutral and it will be what it will be.
It's only half of the story though as we commissioned two versions (Apple and Android) and only the Apple is ready. I very much doubt that the Android will be anytime soon, this time last year when it should have been delivered the developer slipped it 9 months a week before delivery after having been paid extra to get it completed. Time will tell whether that ever comes about.
For now, we are a little closer to the goal of getting it out there into the wild. It does need to pay for itself and reasonably rapidly, or of course, it can just fall on its arse and that will be an end to it.
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