Apple just approved Distant Suns 2.1 for sale. I did receive one note reporting an installation oddity, but he said a relaunching the app cleared it up. I am investigating though. This just in: (imagine teletypes in the background). If you experience an exit on startup, what is happening is this: I only recently learned that the iPhone has a watchdog timer that limits the amount of time it takes for an app to load. If it goes too long (15 or 20...

After accidentally putting DS2 up on the DS Lite feed, I finally have the proper one out there. For those who were able to unintentionally fetch the full one, don’t “upgrade” to the new Lite copy, as you’ll lose a lot of the great features. If you want to continue getting upgrades for DS-2, then you need to purchase the full package which is now on sale through next weekend. Sorry for “giving and taking...

(Note! if you are having trouble updating, seeing the previous version even after getting the new one…That is an Appstore bug. Many other authors are seeing the same things with their package. Apple is looking at it). Well well, Apple may be getting the message when it comes to app approval. When Distant Suns 2 was uploaded to Apple, it took 15 days for approval. That was a month ago. DS 2.0.1 was just approved and posted, when I uploaded...

An upgrade to Distant Suns Lite was just pushed to Apple, and should be available before Christmas. In includes the speed enhancements from the Distant Suns 2 upgrades, constellation figures for the Zodiacal constellations (DS2 has illustrations for all constellations), a cleaner looking interface, Twitter and Apple Push Notification support.

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