“MyRail Lite” iPhone app – dead!
Although I didn’t think to mention the app in my recent Essential iPhone Apps post, the “MyRail Lite” app is (was) first-rate. But they today tweeted that the service is to close because their license to distribute real-time data from National Rail Enquiries isn’t to be renewed.
Several words spring to mind, the cleanest of which would be “boo”, “hiss” and “arse”.
There is another app , very recently released, called “National Rail Enquiries”… but at £4.99 it’s a bit feckin’ steep. It looks to be officially sanctioned by NRE and – while I obviously don’t know the details – I wonder if NRE licensed the data to MyRail, watched them prove the concept, saw it was popular, and then saw an opportunity to screw them over.
(Only guessing, like!)
Tags: iPhone, national rail enquiries, tretchery
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Mar 23rd, 2009