Comments on: Xtrail 1.0.1 http://mjtsai.com/blog/2012/07/05/xtrail-1-0-1/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:43:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nicholas Riley http://mjtsai.com/blog/2012/07/05/xtrail-1-0-1/#comment-667526 Nicholas Riley Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:43:18 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/?p=5246#comment-667526 Yeah, I'm sure they will be too — I hope to revisit Xtrail in the future as I really do appreciate the attention put on its UI. And your experience was also heartening.

]]> By: Michael Tsai http://mjtsai.com/blog/2012/07/05/xtrail-1-0-1/#comment-667522 Michael Tsai Fri, 06 Jul 2012 14:38:59 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/?p=5246#comment-667522 @Nicholas Xtrail is currently a bit more minimal than I’d prefer, but I presume that some of these things will be added in time. Sophia’s English seems to be very good.

]]> By: Nicholas Riley http://mjtsai.com/blog/2012/07/05/xtrail-1-0-1/#comment-667501 Nicholas Riley Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:03:51 +0000 http://mjtsai.com/blog/?p=5246#comment-667501 I had been using Xtrail for the past month or so — indeed, the interface is beautiful, but I noticed some substantial omissions compared to the last such utility I tried — "My Tracks", from when I had an Android phone. In particular:

- There's no detection of stopped time in an activity, which breaks my average speed numbers.
- The average speeds are rounded to the nearest 1 mph (or mp/h, as Xtrail displays it).
- There's no way to see the time of an activity, just the date!

I bought Cyclemeter earlier this week. Cyclemeter's interface is a bit overcomplicated, and unlike Xtrail, the path/marker overlay on the map doesn't update (or hide, for that matter!) as you zoom — but it at least has the features I want.

Another impetus for this was ordering a Wahoo Bluetooth LE bike speed/cadence sensor, which integrates into Cyclemeter. Sophiestication had mentioned on Twitter that they were considering such integration in Xtrail, but nothing has surfaced since then.

I was planning on emailing with the above Xtrail comments, but your response does not inspire confidence. I wonder if lack of fluency in English has something to do with it. I struggle with my seemingly-outdated ideas of software value — regretting an unused $5 iOS purchase like a $100 Mac purchase. For some reason I've got more unused weather apps on my iOS devices than anything else. (Still happy with EagleFiler though :-)

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