We’re Back!
It's been a while and the reasons are:
— We're only two people working on this.
— Essential design decisions in Lenses 1.0 and sneak peek Lenses 1.2 were dictated by technical limitations in iPhone OS 3.x (see prev. post). When we saw the iOS4 specs and the new camera API we realized that it was finally possible to make the app work the way we originally wanted, but also that we would have to redesign and rewrite the entire app from scratch and wait for iOS4 adoptation.
— Lenses 1.0 sales were very low (about 5 / day) so we had to work on other things before investing more time in this project.
Lenses Top 2 Free Camera App in US App Store
About two weeks ago, we decided to give Lenses 1.0 away for free for a while, just to see what would happen. The number of downloads went from 5 to 35,000 a day and Lenses is now on the Top 5 Free Camera Apps charts in the US and 18 other countries. Even though we don't make any money from this at the moment we beleive the gained visibility and possible future user base is an opportunity we should not miss.
We have started working on Lenses 2.0 and we hope we haven't lost all credibility : ).
A friend turned me on to your App. Keep the faith! Anxious to have a full rez version. Keep us posted on what is going on please.