LB Android Version

I'll likely be upgrading to a smart phone when my current contract gets to the point where upgrading to new phones gets the best price -- in about 4 months.

Since I'm with T-Mobile I've been looking at the Android-equipped phone selections and like what I see.

If Life Balance were available for Android I wouldn't even look twice at the iPhone. I love Apple (enough to own stock as well as Macs :-)) but I really dislike AT&T and the lack of real choice in phone carrier when buying into the iPhone phenomena.

Plus I think that Android is poised to give the iPhone a real run for its money.

So if you're keeping count, please add me to the "customers for a Google/Android version" list.

Thanks!

Ann Dupuis, CPDT
Your Dream Dog
http://yourdreamdog.com

I'm actually looking into smart phones right now and am heavily leaning towards getting an Android phone over all of the phones LB currently supports.

I really like Android because it is open source and for several other reasons and an iPhone is really just not that appealing to me.

I'd love to have this app for my phone once I bought it!

Not only that but Llama would be totally limiting their potential income by NOT making an Android version of LB. Think of it this way, ALL cell carriers are coming out with Android phones - the iPhone is AT&T only and they are even now selling Android phones!!

Dear LB Staff,

I've been stopping at your web site periodically to see how you are making out with LB for mobile phone platforms. While I've used Palm phones for a long while, I may switch next year, because I'm tired of the bugginess. The iPhone is well regarded, but honestly, the primary function of a phone is to call, so I likely won't switch to one because of poor coverage. The Android phones from other carriers are intriguing, but the lack of great useful apps such as LB is a drawback. Any reason you cannot reconsider switching priorities to also support Android? In general, I think the product would be a winner. Personally, it would cement my decision to go Android.

Thanks for the suggestions. We do understand that you would like to use Life Balance wherever you want. We certainly are interested in Android (and other platforms) and keeping a watch on all of it.

Life Balance on the iPhone platform is still a fledgling. I feel that it is important for us to take the time to understand how to do better marketing of Life Balance there before extending to Android or any other platform.

Much of this activity has to take place on the App Store, because many of our customers will never bother to visit our web site to learn about the software. Not so easy to direct anyone's attention there. Developers have only a few words and pictures to explain what we do. We do our best to write and post the software, and then, we are try to figure out the idiosyncrasies of the App Store for marketing. Luckily Apple is really good at that stuff, (way better than we are) and we are generally happy to work within their design constraints. It does mean that we have to rely in some unequal proportion on our own work, on Apple and you, and we know how incredibly busy you are.

The people who do use Life Balance on the iPhone and all platforms, use it a lot, and seem to really love it. It has a strong, creative, interesting, loyal customer base, many of whom have been with us for many years. For that we are enormously grateful.

That said, not everyone is willing to take a chance to change their lives for the better too... because "that has got to be a lot of WORK!" And frankly, yes, it is. Nevertheless, Life Balance is about both work AND PLAY! It is about living well... with gusto! You all do it better than ANYONE!

Opening people's minds to the whole idea of trying Life Balance software is challenging when they are overwhelmed and don't feel like they have the energy to learn anything new. You folks get it... many other people do not. They take a lot of convincing. Sooo... our customers seem to be an amazingly determined and enthusiastic bunch! You already knew that about yourselves, though, right? Yes, you ROCK! Sometimes in geology, sometimes in music. Sometimes both! Hard to tell what you will be doing, other than following your own cool dreams!

If you have used Life Balance and put it to good use at any time on any plartform...we would appreciate a kind mention. It would be wonderful to tell some of your success stories... link to us from your facebook pages... post a cheerful blog entry or a nice comment about how you make use of our software somewhere, especially the App Store. Where we do not have much room to explain, you do. To me it seems that you are our most positive and convincing case for Life Balance.

Many thanks again for all your kind comments and enthusiastic support. It means a lot to us! Once we understand better where we are right now, then it will be time to press forward again.

Give and take, ebb and flow... we keep working at it, and most of the time it all works out.

For everyone who HAS posted a positive review on the App Store for us (or put in a mention for us anywhere else for that matter), please just know that it makes such a difference to us! We cannot possibly thank you enough for taking the time to do it!

Best wishes, and many MANY thanks again!

--Catherine--*

I too have been hoping for the day LB is offered on Android. My palm device died a few months back and went back to a paper system for my tasks since I cannot get any coverage from ATT in my area forcing me to be with Verizon. My phone is too on it's last leg, and want to invest in a smart phone to limit the number of gadgets I have to carry. Please keep an open mind and add to the Android platform soon!

"The company" is just me and Stuart. Stuart and I both understand that you would like the Life Balance software to run on Android. Life Balance is a good product, and Stuart is brilliant, so that pretty much leaves just me as the recipient of all blame.

I would like to personally express my sincere regrets again that we have nothing to offer you on Android at this time. If we could do more with what we have to work with, know that we would.

Thanks again. Life Balance attracts a small but surprisingly devoted clientele for which we are very grateful. We do appreciate your ongoing interest and will take your suggestion to heart and will give it the attention it deserves.

Best wishes,

--Catherine--*