A great app BUT . . .
Generally, LDS Scriptures is a great app that I have used for several years (first on my IPhone 3GS and more recently on my IPhone 4S). I recently purchased the $20 app for my new MacBook Air (which, as most of you know, is pretty pricing for an app). I spent the $$ because I have really liked the program on my IPhone (finding it superior to the free on-line scriptures available from the Church) and wanted the same for my new laptop. I was especially excited about their advertised ability to sync between different devices so that elements, such as "tags" could be entered on one device and applied to all. Well, I am sure there is a way to sync between the two, but it is NOT intuitive enough, nor are their support/user guide instructions well enough written, for a 60 year old retired fire chief who is NOT tech savy to be able to figure it out. I have sent their support people an e-mail explaining my problem and asking for help and so well see how responsive they are. In the meanwhile, if it werent for the difficulty of syncing (and the lack of intuitive design between devices) I would have rated this product five stars out of five. Theyre close, but theyre just not there yet. Though a fire chief by profession, my undergraduate degree was in journalism. Part of that degree program were a number of course on technical writing (the branch of journalism for folks that want to become tech manual writers for software and other technology developers. One of the reasons for specific courses on how to become a good tech writer is that they teach you how to write so that someone not at your level of tech savy and not already familiar with your product can still understand what the heck youre trying to explain in specific, easy to understand, lay terms. LDS Scriptures would benefit from hiring a good, well-trained tech writer. My guess from my own experience and those of some of the other people who have reviewed their product is that they do not have a professionally trained technical writer on staff, but instead have software engineers/developers writing there own user guides and therein lies the source of their biggest criticisms.
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