Nike iPhone app; what have I got to lose?
There’s a new Nike Plus app for the iPhone. I’ll probably try it out; at $1.99 the price is right. I mean, what the hell, I’ve tried most of the GPS running apps for the iPhone. And I’ve found them all wanting in some way or other.
Usually, my objection is they lose the GPS signal. When that happens, of course, the app is not useful. Unless, that is, I want to run down my phone’s battery at the fastest possible rate.
Of all of them, Runkeeper in particular has broken my heart on more than one occasion. I remember one time I was using it to pace me in a race when it lost the GPS signal. That would be bad enough by itself, but Runkeeper doesn’t tell you it’s no longer updating the GPS. It just keeps going and going, reporting your time is getting worse and worse.
I did read somewhere that the Nike Plus app would even work without GPS. That’s what’s got me keen to try it. I don’t know if it would work off of cell towers or what. But if it does keep track when out of GPS, that alone would be worth two bucks.
