SAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD/IWORLD 2012 — As the App Store approaches its fourth birthday this July, some early apps are getting quite mature. With each update, more and more features get added.
Take for example a trio of apps from Abvio for running, walking and cycling. The company was previewing version 7 of their apps here at the show, and they have become very full-featured indeed.
Each app can track up to 150 different pieces of exercise data, from speed to average heart rate. The company claims this is far more data than any other fitness app in the iTunes store. The apps support a variety of ANT monitors and tracking devices. They are also integrated into Twitter, Facebook and dailymile.com.
Version 7 of the apps, due out next month, takes all this data and adds a better UI for navigating it. Previous versions tended to suffer from data-overload. The new app allows all this data to be better accessed and organized.
Data is organized into several pages, which can be individually configured to show stats, maps, graphs and more. Pages are navigated by a simple swipe. Version 7 includes an integrated music player.
There’s a also a new UI for navigating your workout history. You can drill down to see workouts by day, week, month or more. The history can also provide unique feedback based on past performance. Say you’re trailing by a previous workout, the app can speak this information you through your headphones, spurring you on to beat your personal best.
Altogether, the apps appear to be as full-featured as an workout monitors can get. Each app costs $4.99. Version 7 will be available in March.
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac.
Leander is a longtime technology reporter and the author of six acclaimed books about Apple, including two New York Times bestsellers: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products and Inside Steve’s Brain, a biography of Steve Jobs.
He’s also written a top-selling biography of Apple CEO Tim Cook and authored Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod, which both won prestigious design awards. Most recently, he was co-author of Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition.
Leander has been reporting about Apple and technology for nearly 30 years.
Before founding Cult of Mac as an independent publication, Leander was news editor at Wired.com, where he was responsible for the day-to-day running of the Wired.com website. He headed up a team of six section editors, a dozen reporters and a large pool of freelancers. Together the team produced a daily digest of stories about the impact of science and technology, and won several awards, including several Webby Awards, 2X Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism and the 2010 MIN (Magazine Industry Newsletter) award for best blog, among others.
Before being promoted to news editor, Leander was Wired.com’s senior reporter, primarily covering Apple. During that time, Leander published a ton of scoops, including the first in-depth report about the development of the iPod. Leander attended almost every keynote speech and special product launch presented by Steve Jobs, including the historic launches of the iPhone and iPad. He also reported from almost every Macworld Expo in the late ’90s and early ‘2000s, including, sadly, the last shows in Boston, San Francisco and Tokyo. His reporting for Wired.com formed the basis of the first Cult of Mac book, and subsequently this website.
Before joining Wired, Leander was a senior reporter at the legendary MacWeek, the storied and long-running weekly that documented Apple and its community in the 1980s and ’90s.
Leander has written for Wired magazine (including the Issue 16.04 cover story about Steve Jobs’ leadership at Apple, entitled Evil/Genius), Scientific American, The Guardian, The Observer, The San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.
Leander has a postgrad diploma in artificial intelligence from the University of Aberdeen, and a BSc (Hons) in experimental psychology from the University of Sussex.
He has a diploma in journalism from the UK’s National Council for the Training of Journalists.
Leander lives in San Francisco, California, and is married with four children. He’s an avid biker and has ridden in many long-distance bike events, including California’s legendary Death Ride.
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One response to “Take A Peek At Upcoming Versions Of Abvio’s Full-Featured Running And Cycling Apps”
What a ripoff ! This is a copy of ActivityMeter which does the job elegantly and easily and is available for just 99 cents !!!
Check this out !
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app…