IPhone Apps

[Dave Schwartz]

How many Iphone users do we have here, anyway?

[thaskalos]

How many Iphone users do we have here, anyway?One...for sure.

[Inglewood Flamingo]

Ditto here. :2:

[speculus]

Make that 3. :)

[redshift1]

How many Iphone users do we have here, anyway?


You might go with smart-phones in general but when people talk of racing reaching out to a younger audience, racing apps in any iteration for smartphones are close to non-existent. I think the DRF provides some content for the iphone and Blackberry but not much.

[JustRalph]

Dave, thinking about taking up a new programming language?

Remember, IPhone apps will run on the iPad also :ThmbUp:

[Jasonm921]

IPad...me.

[Coleman]

This seems as good a time as any for a first post...

iPhone here.

By the way, if you have any interest in Australian racing, there is a free iPhone app called AUS Racing that gives you programs/results/and free live video of Australian racing, and the quality is quite good.

[turfnsport]

Recently got an IPhone...the industry is missing the boat on Apps.

[GatetoWire]

Best Horse Racing Apps on iPhone

North America:
Equibase Yearbook
DRF Ticketmaker
Breeders Cup
Twitter (lots of good people to follow)
BettingSlips (it's a app to figure out the cost of any wager)
iDerby (racing game...pretty fun but repetitive)
Horse Racing 3D (a little to easy to figure out but fun for a little while)

Europe:
Racing Post (great way to get European news)
Racing UK


Xpressbet has a pretty good smartphone betting site that is customized for smartphones. It's not an app you just access from your browser.


Agreed that we need more......IPad should be a great format for the horseplayer to be paperless at the track if the right apps were developed.


I use a Next Gen Kindle to view PDF DRF files at the track but the functionality is not great.
I would never use it if I had not poured over the data before I arrived.

[Pell Mell]

What's an I phone? What's apps?:confused:

[Dave Schwartz]

Dave, thinking about taking up a new programming language?

Actually, my marketing guys asked me to post this.

I doubt that I (personally) will write such an app but I might design one. (Let's leave that for another thread.)

[gm10]

NTRA has (had?) a podcast with graded stakes replays which is handy.

Safari is useful if you want to offer something on iPhone. It has supported AJAX since the start.

[LA Racing Lady]

I love my iPhone! :jump:

No racing apps, but do use it to go to this website and view entries/results on Equibase.

[Turfway]

I have the droid incredible and the only reason i keep fighting through twinspires is for twinspires mobile i don't think i could live without it at this point

[mannyberrios]

:1: I have a iPhone . Check out this app, I bettheraces

[Zaf]

I Love my Blackberry :kiss:

Z

[bigmack]

If you're thinkin' of writing a pay app for iphones, Mr. S., don't botha.

[PaceAdvantage]

If you're thinkin' of writing a pay app for iphones, Mr. S., don't botha.¿por qué no?

[mannyberrios]

Actually, my marketing guys asked me to post this.

I doubt that I (personally) will write such an app but I might design one. (Let's leave that for another thread.)
:1: If you make a app, I will download it

[Dave Schwartz]

If you're thinkin' of writing a pay app for iphones, Mr. S., don't botha.

I agree with you. My marketing geniuses do not understand that a horse racing app will not sell 10,000,000 copies. It will sell about 200. Or less. Even at $0.99.

[chickenhead]

put HSH on a Amazon server and let people get to it over the web or via app, just charge a monthly access fee. Let the servers do the number crunching.

Your life would be a lot easier without supporting a user installed Windows program I'd guess...

[mannyberrios]

:1a: put HSH on a Amazon server and let people get to it over the web or via app, just charge a monthly access fee. Let the servers do the number crunching.

Your life would be a lot easier without supporting a user installed Windows program I'd guess... :1: I got no problem with that

[thorobasePA]

I'd agree with Dave and say the market is close to non-existent for iPhone apps for (real world) racing, though I will say that the racing games market could be a nice little earner.

It's very, very hard to make money anymore just developing mobile apps - it's like the movie business; an occasional hit, with many failures. The subscription model would help but you are entering a full time deal then I think.

I've seen players at the track use ADW apps for betting. I haven't really found any other scenario when players feel like they need mobility over a computing power (as your poll a few weeks ago showed).

I'm considering building a dedicated native app for thorobase (http://thorobase.com), but it already works well enough on the mobile Safari browser (save for those YouTube videos that aren't h.264) so it's a low priority.

[my_nameaintearl]

There already is a pretty decent horse racing game app

[Linny]

I have an iPod Touch and like the Equibase and BC apps. If Verizon gets the iphone I will probably get one. I hope there are more racing apps available soon.

Would people be interested in a race recap type podcast featuring staes races or races bundled by category like "3yo allowances" or day by day replays from tracks?

[Kevroc]

Android here.

Use equibase app and twinspires via full internet browser.

[stu]

Android user of the Equibase and Racing Post apps