London - A City Through Time Negative Reviews

London - A City Through Time App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

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✓ Must have an Internet connectionThe app is very impressive BUT if you want to take it away from a wifi connection be prepared to lose access to all the video as it is streamed. The app is very large at over a gigabyte considering no offline video..CoppersharkVersion: 1.1

✓ A Memory HogI have removed this expensive app from my iPad because its enormous memory requirement prevented me from doing other things more important to me. The initial download is only part of it. In use it downloads (if your internet connection is active) further large images and there seems to be no way to delete these or stop them from being saved permanently. Like many electronic guides it can get irritating because its pre-programmed audio inevitably keeps playing the same bit every time you open the app or go to the same point within it. Although it contains information such as one might get from a half-decent tourist guide (but without the opportunity to ask one's own questions) the basis is a set of high res scans of images. Is that really what you want from an iPad app?.Leighton008Version: 1.3

✓ What a shameIt looks like a nice app, but if it contains such a basic error such as the date of the present Queen's Coronation (it took place in 1953 not 1952) what other errors are there?.ZoofanextraordinaireVersion: 1.0

✓ Promising concept, but very flawed implementationAudio not working anywhere in the app; frequent crashes.FinitorVersion: 1.0

✓ Sound does not workPurchased and downloaded application on 8th July 2012. Sound does not work at all. Cannot comment further because the application is no better than Wikipedia without the full audio visual experience. Expensive purchase and expensive mistake..Pmk1234Version: 1.0

✓ Needs a proofreader, but great contentReally great collection of material, but I am bothered by the typos. There are place names that aren't capitalized, bits of words missing at the beginning of sentences, and occasionally muddled syntax. For the rather high cost, this is an amateurish oversight. Please repair these in your (hopefully very soon) update..54JAMNCVersion: 1.0

✓ Good app...takes hours to install and update...and hours and hours and hours.PfalatoVersion: 1.1

✓ Good app but so many updatesThis is a really good application but it looks like I have had to download updates of 1,000MB every few days. It is killing my bandwidth..Crinau07Version: 1.1

✓ Total waste of moneyWhat a waste of money. Within 2 minutes of opening the app, I found two major errors. A major London theatre had been incorrectly positioned on the map, and almost unbelievably, a picture of Tower Bridge was labelled 'Fireworks over London Bridge'. I emailed the error to the corrections department and they replied maybe I was "just lucky". eh? I paid £9.99 for a reference app, not for a game to seek out errors. The app gives the impression of a school project fairly hashed together by a group of 15 year olds. A lot of cut and pasted documents/photos that could be found on the Internet in 10 seconds. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY - GOOGLE IS FREE.HatescrapappsVersion: 1.3

✓ London--A city thru time2nd UPDATE: Another star awarded. It's obvious someone's listening and working to make this a first-class app. Now when you search on a name there is an article on the person; sometimes short, sometimes long. BUT there is now a hyperlink to Wikipedia if you want to read about someone in greater depth. What a great idea! Now if they would add such links to subjects other than Persons I'd be really pleased. As it is I could spend hours with this app. If I'm lucky enough to get to London once more I'll bring my iPad and have the Ace of Guides. Bravo. UPDATE: Another disappointment. I decided to open the section called 'Browse by Subject' and worked my way to 'Squares' for which London is justly famous. The first one on the list was Butts Square in Middlesex. There was a a very brief description, 83 words. 'OK', I thought, 'Maybe there's really not much to talk about.'. The end of the note mentioned the 18th Century politician, John Wilkes, whose name sounded familiar. There was no hyperlink allowing me to jump to his entry. Entering the search function, I found a brief entry on Wilkes. I compared it to the entry in my CONCISE Dictionary of National Biography to 1900 (who can afford or house all 67 volumes of the un-concise version?) and found an article on Wilkes, an epitome of that in the full set. It was MUCH longer than the one here. In the Butts Square article there were two hyperlinks, one to Archery, the other to Middlesex. That's good. It's odd, since an article exists in this app on Wilkes, that he doesn't rate a hyperlinkI I read a positive review about this in a recent Economist and even tho it is pricey I'm so interested in London I bought it at once. I've put it's icon on my iPad home page for fast access. Original Review: The 360* views are great; I've only done Trafalgar Square yet. However, the search function is lame. I wanted to read about the Brompton Cemetery and it came up with nothing. There are three categories to search under: by people, by article title, and by something called 'full articles text'. I searched the three ways being very careful in my spelling. A huge disillusion. There is the Google map function, with its customary street layout which can be converted to satellite view; nice. However, unlike the usual google option of using both simultaneously, you have to choose one or the other. I like to use both because the street map has labels; the satellite doesn't. You have a birds eye view without any idea of what you're looking at. When the street map is opened it is littered with identifying icons which can obscure what your looking for. There is an option which more or less lets you hide them. Using the map and knowing where Brompton Cemetery is, I found it and using the icon there displayed (an appropriate skull) I was able to read a brief article about the cemetery. Unlike many apps, if you leave the London one, upon your return you have to start all over; it doesn't hold your place. The App Store app, in which I'm writing this review, let me go to the London app to double-check what I was writing and then let me come right back to this review without having to start all over. Whew! I'll write more of this app's pros and cons as I become familiar with it. I'm giving it only two stars now because of the ghastly search engine. I truly hope they fix it so I can rave about it. ..BeachesboyVersion: 1.1

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