Want The Inquisitr on your iPhone? There’s an app for that

I’m proud to announce today that official launch of The Inquisitr iPhone application, now available in the iTunes store for the best price of all: FREE.

The Inquisitr application is a feed reader, pulling on our primary and subject feeds to allow quick and easy reading of the latest headlines from the site. Content is rendered in full, so you don’t have to click back to the site to read a full post. Clicked links are rendered within the app, so it’s easy to head back to the original post, and you can refresh the application at any time.

As this is our first version, and as a direct result of the lead time required, there are a few things the application doesn’t offer yet. Our new Science and Health section isn’t available in this version, nor is inline commenting due to the recent introduction of JS-Kit on site (although you can click back to the site to view/ add comments.) We’d hope to add both in future versions.

Part of developing an app was to offer an easier way to read the site on an iPhone or iPod Touch, but I wouldn’t be me if there wasn’t an interest in seeing how the development and application submission process worked. Outsourcing the development was a very positive experience, and surprisingly affordable. The first test version of the app was delivered in one week, with tweaks following over the second week.

We eventually submitted it to Apple at the beginning of September, and it took a bit over two weeks to get approved…but only after nearly two weeks of getting Apple to approve my developer account. Apple had an issue with our company name: I submitted it as Nichenet, and they insisted it had to be displayed as Nichenet Pty Ltd (the full company name.) I pointed out that Apple in Australia has a full company name of Apple Computer Australia Pty Ltd and they weren’t showing the Pty Ltd part (Pty Ltd is an Australian designation for the type of company) but they wouldn’t play.

You can download The Inquisitr iPhone app here